FreeBSD's top(1) utility displays CPU statistics by default.
To display I/O activity for each process instead, run top like this:
top -m io
-- Benedict Reuschling <bcr@FreeBSD.org>
FreeBSD Fortune
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2026-09-24 17:00:30 UTC
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