01. [10p] Task Manager

Go through the Task Manager introduction and/or watch the video below.

:!: Which process is constantly reading or writing to your hard disk?

  1. Open Task Manager and select the Details tab
  2. Right-click on the column header and click “Select columns”
  3. Enable the “I/O Read Bytes” and “I/O Write Bytes” checkboxes
  4. Sort the list by clicking on a column header to see the most read-intensive and/or write-intensive processes
  5. Identify the process and mention if and why the I/O traffic is justified

  • I/O Read Bytes is the number of bytes read in input/output operations generated by a process, including file, network, and device I/Os.
  • I/O Write Bytes is the number of bytes written in input/output operations by a process, including file, network, and device I/Os.
  • I/O Read Bytes and I/O Write Bytes directed to console are not counted.