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Perfmon: "% Disk Time" always shows "Avg. Disk Queue Length" * 100
Posted by Frank on November 24th, 2006


I am using perfmon on several Windows 2003 servers. The PhysicalDisk
counter "% Disk Time" always shows 100 times the value of "Avg. Disk
Queue Length".

Examples:
% Disk Time: 476.330 232.970 197.710 22.460
Avg. Disk Queue Length: 4.763 2.330 1.977 0.225

Both values appear "reasonable", and I agree that they might correlate.
However, I am quite surprised that they are matching exactly almost all
the time. Any ideas?