INFOGRAPHIC DISK ACTIVITY INTERFACE AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING RELATIVE SATURATION OF A COMPUTER DISK SYSTEM

摘要

A computer-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by at least one processor of a computer system, adapt the computer system to implement a method for displaying relative saturation of a computer disk system. The method includes visually displaying elements of the computer disk system in an infographic disk activity interface. The elements may include at least one of the group including at least one disk controller, at least one physical disk, at least one file, and at least one other files. The elements are visually linked using an arrangement of connectors defining respective data flow paths between the elements. Disk system activity along the data flow paths is visually indicated using static and/or dynamic infographic display elements.

主权项

1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by at least one processor of a computer system, adapt said computer system to implement a method for displaying relative data flow among elements of said computer system, said method comprising:
visually displaying elements of said computer system in an infographic interface; visually linking said elements using an arrangement of connectors, said connectors defining respective data flow paths among said elements; and visually indicating computer system activity comprising a relative path saturation of data flow along said data flow paths, the relative path saturation representing activity measurements comprising data flow rate and latency, wherein latency comprises a time to process data flow operations occurring on at least one element of said computer system, and wherein visually indicating computer system activity comprises simultaneously representing data flow rate and latency using at least two visual attributes, whereby the visual attributes indicate data flow rate and latency along respective data flow paths such that relative computer system activity creating a bottleneck of data flow along any given data flow path can be visually determined.