Resource Monitor Disk Queue Length - What does the green graph and blue line represent?

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Windows Resource Monitor shows a graph of Disk Queue Length. E.g.:

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What does the green graph, and the blue line represent:

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Research Effort

It is not Disk I/O and Highest Active Time

Don't forget, it is not Disk I/O and Highest Active Time, because it can't be both things for both graphs. Because both graphs are different.

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  • if it were the same thing
  • for both graphs
  • then both graphs would be the same

Also, one graph is Disk I/O (in MB/sec), and the other is Queue Length (in number).

Ian Boyd

Posted 2019-10-11T14:46:58.520

Reputation: 18 244

" it can't be both things for both graphs." Why not?.....https://superuser.com/questions/45722/what-does-highest-active-time-for-disk-activity-in-windows-resource-monitor-me

– Moab – 2019-10-11T15:57:50.800

@Moab If both lines represented the same thing, then both graphs would look the same (since they are measuring the same thing). Since they don't look the same - something has to be different. – Ian Boyd – 2019-10-14T15:23:22.467

Answers

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Green is the Disk I/O in KB/second

Blue is % Highest active time

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Moab

Posted 2019-10-11T14:46:58.520

Reputation: 54 203

If they are Disk I/O and Highest Active Time in the Queue Length graph; what are they in the top graph? – Ian Boyd – 2019-10-11T15:08:55.927

Don't have a clue. – Moab – 2019-10-11T15:11:34.677

They the same in the top graph - the blue graph is identical on all displays. – harrymc – 2019-10-11T16:53:15.310