Resource monitor takes a snapshot of what has changed in the last few
seconds, not necessarily what is changing "right this instant".

So what you are seeing is all of the files that have been read/written by
dfrgntfs since the last ResMon refresh.

Does this answer your question?

-Victoria


"Yinghe Chen" <cremyh_removeit@singnet.com.sg> wrote in message
news:6C5FA3E2-FC46-4285-B252-BCA256B84251@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
>I kicked off the disk defragment in vista, and open the Resource Monitor,
>found at least 5-6 Dfrgntfs.exe is running backgrounds simultaneously, is
>it designed so? Optimized for speed?
>
> I am just hearing that the hard disk is keep on giving out noises.[/color]