Balancing activity

[AlexOb]

Should drivepool show disk activity when balancing?  I only see disk activity when i copy a file.  Nothing shows during balancing or duplication.  Is that normal?

[Rob Manderson]

If you mean in the area on the bottom right under performance then yes, it's completely normal that it shows nothing.  Methinks the performance area only shows activity not initiated by Drivepool itself.

[AlexOb]

33 minutes ago, Rob Manderson said:

If you mean in the area on the bottom right under performance then yes, it's completely normal that it shows nothing.  Methinks the performance area only shows activity not initiated by Drivepool itself.

Yes.  The area on the bottom right.  It would be nice to see all activity.  They show the activity in the scanner app.

[Christopher (Drashna)]

The Performance panel only shows activity that happens through the pool driver.  Balancing and duplication activity is not reflected here.  

The reason for this is how Windows handles the performance counters, and that we don't want to use any hacks to try to make it reflect duplication/balancing, since those can lead to a lot more issues, than what it solves.