Wouldn't it be "disk queue length >= N, where N = the number of  
spindles?

- Sean



On Nov 9, 2009, at 3:37 PM, "Steven M. Caesare" <[email protected]>  
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> Not a 3rd party tool, but take a look at disk queue length in  
> PerfMon. Continued session with the value >=1 indicates that I/O  
> requests are being issued faster than they can be retired
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> From: Glen Johnson [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 1:32 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Disk benchmark
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> I’ve got a couple servers here that don’t seem to be as  
> responsive as I think they should be.
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> Network and CPU usage is not maxed out and so I’m thinking maybe the 
>  disk isn’t optimum.
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> Anyone have a quick and dirty script or program that will give me  
> read and write speed for the drives.
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> What I really like to do is compare performance between two or three  
> machines.
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> Also, would rather not have to install a program and one that  
> requires a reboot is out of the question.
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> TIA.
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> Glen.
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