An software record all the I/O written?

[sinspiren]

Hey guys

starting recently I noticed my system ssd is writing above 100GB per day, although perhaps acceptable but still wondering which process caused it. I know there are a lot of software out there can show you the I/O written, such as process explorer but as far as I know they all can not record a process if its closed, for example I used my chrome and wrote 1GB to it, but if I closed chrome, this entry will disappeared from the monitoring softwares.

In another words, is there a software that can just log and sort every process, terminated or active that has been written to my ssd?

Cheers

[LogicalDrm]

This came up with simple search https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/procmon

I haven't used it before myself. And I don't know if it helps you as it doesn't seem to log how much data was written.

 

I'm gonna expect that you have pagefile and maybe hibernation file on your SSD? Those can be very well the reason for write amounts.

 

 

[sinspiren]

On 5/14/2020 at 4:14 PM, LogicalDrm said:

This came up with simple search https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/procmon

I haven't used it before myself. And I don't know if it helps you as it doesn't seem to log how much data was written.

 

I'm gonna expect that you have pagefile and maybe hibernation file on your SSD? Those can be very well the reason for write amounts.

 

 

Yeah thanks for the tip, unfortunately it does not record the quantity of the data written, and No I don't have paging file and disabled hibernation. I pretty much tried all the tweaks online, new and old online for reduce writing to disk C but no luck, and if its something I use daily, I guess reinstall windows won't help either.

[Kilrah]

Just sorting processes by disk usage in task manager should be enough given the amount.

 

If you want more details either look at Resource Monitor or Process Hacker, in the latter you can add the "Disk write bytes" colum which will show total writes for each process (need to run it as admin for that to populate).

[sinspiren]

10 hours ago, Kilrah said:

Just sorting processes by disk usage in task manager should be enough given the amount.

 

If you want more details either look at Resource Monitor or Process Hacker, in the latter you can add the "Disk write bytes" colum which will show total writes for each process (need to run it as admin for that to populate).

yeah but same as op stated. far as I know they all can not record a process if its closed, for example I used my chrome and wrote 1GB to it, but if I closed chrome, this entry will disappeared from the monitoring softwares.

[Kilrah]

Sure but as said to write 100GB there will be significant writes very often if not continuously throughout the day, so you should be able to catch it by having a look once in a while. And it's easy to avoid closing apps for one day to catch the culprit.

[sinspiren]

24 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Sure but as said to write 100GB there will be significant writes very often if not continuously throughout the day, so you should be able to catch it by having a look once in a while. And it's easy to avoid closing apps for one day to catch the culprit.

I have been using process explorer for a few days now, the most is chrome like 25GB ish and second is iCUE bloware which is like 2GB, scratching my head now. The reason I fixed on the idea of permanent record so much is that take HxTsr.exe for example, probably was an office update, one day I saw it taking my full bandwidth, wrote something like 7GB in like 5 minutes and then just terminate it and disappeared from process monitor. If I wasnt that bored and staring at the explore at that exactly second I would never know. Wondering how many those small pieces comes and go on the fly

[Kilrah]

25GB for Chrome is insanely high unless you're actually downloading close to that much. 

[sinspiren]

16 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

25GB for Chrome is insanely high unless you're actually downloading close to that much. 

I basically download nothing, youtube streaming yeah, but sure about the video cache since the bitrate is all over the place. Nothing fancy about the plugin neither, just adblock, some shopping tool, IDM etc.