[acpo]

wondering if there's anything decent out there for this.

procmonis a start but it shows wait too many finite details. something that could show, for example, the average Mbps of read/write over the last X minutes per process would be awesome. surely something like that exists?

sometimes my harddrive will be churning away but I don't know what's causing it

 

[kibje]

If your harddrive is churning it usually means it does a lot of Read (seek) operations, this means the drive is constantly moving to a new position on the harddisk, which causes the sound. Writing large blocks to a disk usually doesn't make a lot of sound UNLESS the disk is severely fragmented.

You would be off to a good start by monitoring Input/Output numbers in Windows Task Manager.

- press CTRL-SHIFT-ESC
- select the second tab, Processes
- In the View menu select Select Columns...
- Choose to view I/O Reads, I/O Writes, I/O Other, I/O Read Bytes, I/O Write Bytes, I/O Other Bytes

Pay special attention to the Reads and Writes of the processes when you hear the churning

 

[acpo]

yeah, I'm aware it can be monitored that way but it doesn't seem like the most effecient way to go about it. it doesn't show the average in "recent history," it shows the totals from the entire history the ap has been up.

was just wondering if there was a more user friendly tool out there.