Hello can somebody explain me why Rainmeter is constantly using my Harddrive ?
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What is it Doing ???
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What is it Doing ???
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- Rainmeter Sage
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Re: What is it Doing ???
I can't duplicate your issue...
I would suggest closing one skin at a time, until the constant requests stop; the last skin you closed is the guilty one.
With that info, some one may be able to help.
I would suggest closing one skin at a time, until the constant requests stop; the last skin you closed is the guilty one.
With that info, some one may be able to help.
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Re: What is it Doing ???
From your ProcMon output, it looks like the Disks Meter skin is polling your drive at 1 second intervals to check the disk space free/available. This is one of the functions that skin is designed to do, so it shouldn't come as a surprise...
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Re: What is it Doing ???
But why only on Drive D and nowere else ?
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Re: What is it Doing ???
A while ago, I've written a code which can check when a drive is written / read. Then eclectic-tech has rewritten that code and haspublished a skin installer.Zerocool85 wrote:But why only on Drive D and nowere else ?
Now I again rewrote it, removing a lot of measures and adding a few to can count the amount of read / written data:
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[Metadata]
Name=Disk Activity
Author=Balala (blaci75@gmail.com)
Version=1
License=Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 3.0
Information=Displays all hard disk activity.
[Rainmeter]
Update=250
BackgroundMode=2
SolidColor=80,80,80,200
AccurateText=1
DynamicWindowSize=1
BevelType=1
[Variables]
Disk1=C:
Disk2=D:
NoActivityColor=0,0,0,40
ReadingColor=0,255,0
WritingColor=255,0,0
BothColor=255,240,0
Time=300
[RoundlineStyle]
W=16
H=16
Padding=5,5,5,5
StartAngle=4.712
RotationAngle=6.283
LineLength=8
Solid=1
AntiAlias=1
AutoScale=1
[StringStyle]
X=13r
Y=13r
FontColor=220,220,220
FontEffectColor=0,0,0
StringEffect=Border
FontSize=8
FontFace=Segoe UI
StringStyle=BOLD
StringAlign=CENTERCENTER
AntiAlias=1
[Timer]
Measure=Calc
Formula=( Timer + 1 )
UpdateDivider=4
Group=Measure
IfCondition=(Timer=#Time#)
IfTrueAction=[!PauseMeasureGroup "Measure"]
[MeasureTotalDisk1]
Measure=FreeDiskSpace
Drive=#Disk1#
Total=1
UpdateDivider=3
IgnoreRemovable=0
IfCondition=(MeasureTotalDisk1=0)
IfTrueAction=[!HideMeterGroup "Disk1"]
IfFalseAction=[!ShowMeterGroup "Disk1"]
[MeasureTotalDisk2]
Measure=FreeDiskSpace
Drive=#Disk2#
Total=1
UpdateDivider=3
IgnoreRemovable=0
IfCondition=(MeasureTotalDisk2=0)
IfTrueAction=[!HideMeterGroup "Disk2"]
IfFalseAction=[!ShowMeterGroup "Disk2"]
[MeasureDiskRead1]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=PerfMon
PerfMonObject=LogicalDisk
PerfMonCounter=Disk Read Bytes/sec
PerfMonInstance=#Disk1#
[MeasureDiskWrite1]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=PerfMon
PerfMonObject=LogicalDisk
PerfMonCounter=Disk Write Bytes/sec
PerfMonInstance=#Disk1#
IfCondition=((MeasureDiskRead1=0)&&(MeasureDiskWrite1=0))
IfTrueAction=[!SetOption MeterDisk1Activity LineColor "#NoActivityColor#"][!UpdateMeter "MeterDisk1Activity"][!Redraw]
IfCondition2=((MeasureDiskRead1>0)&&(MeasureDiskWrite1=0))
IfTrueAction2=[!SetOption MeterDisk1Activity LineColor "#ReadingColor#"][!UpdateMeter "MeterDisk1Activity"][!Redraw]
IfCondition3=((MeasureDiskRead1=0)&&(MeasureDiskWrite1>0))
IfTrueAction3=[!SetOption MeterDisk1Activity LineColor "#WritingColor#"][!UpdateMeter "MeterDisk1Activity"][!Redraw]
IfCondition4=((MeasureDiskRead1>0)&&(MeasureDiskWrite1>0))
IfTrueAction4=[!SetOption MeterDisk1Activity LineColor "#BothColor#"][!UpdateMeter "MeterDisk1Activity"][!Redraw]
[MeasureDiskRead1Total]
Measure=Calc
Formula=( MeasureDiskRead1Total + MeasureDiskRead1 )
Group=Measure
[MeasureDiskWrite1Total]
Measure=Calc
Formula=( MeasureDiskWrite1Total + MeasureDiskWrite1 )
Group=Measure
[MeasureDiskRead1TotalMB]
Measure=Calc
Formula=( MeasureDiskRead1Total / 1024**2 )
Group=Measure
[MeasureDiskWrite1TotalMB]
Measure=Calc
Formula=( MeasureDiskWrite1Total / 1024**2 )
Group=Measure
[MeasureDiskRead2]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=PerfMon
PerfMonObject=LogicalDisk
PerfMonCounter=Disk Read Bytes/sec
PerfMonInstance=#Disk2#
[MeasureDiskWrite2]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=PerfMon
PerfMonObject=LogicalDisk
PerfMonCounter=Disk Write Bytes/sec
PerfMonInstance=#Disk2#
IfCondition=((MeasureDiskRead2=0)&&(MeasureDiskWrite2=0))
IfTrueAction=[!SetOption MeterDisk2Activity LineColor "#NoActivityColor#"][!UpdateMeter "MeterDisk2Activity"][!Redraw]
IfCondition2=((MeasureDiskRead2>0)&&(MeasureDiskWrite2=0))
IfTrueAction2=[!SetOption MeterDisk2Activity LineColor "#ReadingColor#"][!UpdateMeter "MeterDisk2Activity"][!Redraw]
IfCondition3=((MeasureDiskRead2=0)&&(MeasureDiskWrite2>0))
IfTrueAction3=[!SetOption MeterDisk2Activity LineColor "#WritingColor#"][!UpdateMeter "MeterDisk2Activity"][!Redraw]
IfCondition4=((MeasureDiskRead2>0)&&(MeasureDiskWrite2>0))
IfTrueAction4=[!SetOption MeterDisk2Activity LineColor "#BothColor#"][!UpdateMeter "MeterDisk2Activity"][!Redraw]
[MeasureDiskRead2Total]
Measure=Calc
Formula=( MeasureDiskRead2Total + MeasureDiskRead2 )
Group=Measure
[MeasureDiskWrite2Total]
Measure=Calc
Formula=( MeasureDiskWrite2Total + MeasureDiskWrite2 )
Group=Measure
[MeasureDiskRead2TotalMB]
Measure=Calc
Formula=( MeasureDiskRead2Total / 1024**2 )
Group=Measure
[MeasureDiskWrite2TotalMB]
Measure=Calc
Formula=( MeasureDiskWrite2Total / 1024**2 )
Group=Measure
[MeterDisk1Activity]
Meter=Roundline
MeterStyle=RoundlineStyle
X=5
Y=0
Group=Disk1
LeftMouseUpAction=["#Disk1#"]
[MeterDisk1]
Meter=String
MeterStyle=StringStyle
Text=#Disk1#
Group=Disk1
[MeterDisk2Activity]
Meter=Roundline
MeterStyle=RoundlineStyle
X=([MeterDisk1Activity:X]+[MeterDisk1Activity:W])
Y=0
DynamicVariables=1
Group=Disk2
LeftMouseUpAction=["#Disk2#"]
[MeterDisk2]
Meter=String
MeterStyle=StringStyle
Text=#Disk2#
Group=Disk2
[MeterReadWrite]
MeasureName=MeasureDiskRead1TotalMB
MeasureName2=MeasureDiskWrite1TotalMB
MeasureName3=MeasureDiskRead2TotalMB
MeasureName4=MeasureDiskWrite2TotalMB
MeasureName5=Timer
Meter=STRING
X=0
Y=5R
Padding=15,5,15,5
FontColor=220,220,220
FontSize=8
FontFace=Segoe UI
StringStyle=BOLD
StringAlign=LEFT
AntiAlias=1
Text=#Disk1#:R: %1 MB#CRLF#W: %2 MB#CRLF##CRLF##Disk2#:R: %3 MB#CRLF#W: %4 MB#CRLF##CRLF#Time: %5 sec
The above code will show the activity of drives C: and D: (you can change them through the Disk1 and Disk2 variables, in the [Variables] section) and will count the amount of the read / written data, on both drives.
The Time variable (in the same [Variables] section) controls how long the skin will count (obviously in seconds).
If you let the skin work, when the set time passed, you'll see what amount of data was read / written to both drives.
Is really much more accessed the drive D: then C:?
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- Rainmeter Sage
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Re: What is it Doing ???
Most likely it is because you added a filter in ProcMon for just the D: drive? Because on my system every drive is showing as being queried in ProcMon, not just D:.Zerocool85 wrote:But why only on Drive D and nowere else ?
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Re: What is it Doing ???
It occurs to me that this could be polled only once every 10 seconds or even slower. Disk space does not need to be constantly monitored...SilverAzide wrote:From your ProcMon output, it looks like the Disks Meter skin is polling your drive at 1 second intervals to check the disk space free/available. This is one of the functions that skin is designed to do, so it shouldn't come as a surprise...
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Re: What is it Doing ???
Very true, but don't forget that these measures are the "triggers" for detecting if the drive exists. So if you only poll this every 10 seconds or so, it will take at least 10 seconds for the skin to recognize a USB drive or whatever coming on line (or being unplugged). Also, this activity isn't really hitting the physical disk, all this stuff is cached in Windows (or the drive's own cache), so unless the drive is newly on- or off-line, you're just hitting the cache.raiguard wrote:It occurs to me that this could be polled only once every 10 seconds or even slower. Disk space does not need to be constantly monitored...
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Re: What is it Doing ???
Ah, very true. I guess if it doesn't have much of a performance impact it doesn't really matter.SilverAzide wrote:Very true, but don't forget that these measures are the "triggers" for detecting if the drive exists. So if you only poll this every 10 seconds or so, it will take at least 10 seconds for the skin to recognize a USB drive or whatever coming on line (or being unplugged). Also, this activity isn't really hitting the physical disk, all this stuff is cached in Windows (or the drive's own cache), so unless the drive is newly on- or off-line, you're just hitting the cache.