TSGL: Page Faults

[Mike Ferrell]

Don,
I tried to take a look at mine, but I can't even find "page faults".  Hate 
to ask, but where is it listed on the Task Manager?
Mike F.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Penlington" <deepend at tpg.com.au>
To: "'Tech Support Guy Mailing List'" <list at tsgserver.com>
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 8:24 AM
Subject: TSGL: Page Faults


> Task Manager shows me that Windows Explorer has over 77 million "page
> faults". AVG shows several million, and similar with some other programs.
> Most background utilities have at least several thousand. The Explorer
> count is increasing by about 100 per second as I watch.  Frightening!
>
> Is this telling me anything? Is it normal?  Is my machine running amok?
> Performance is a little down, hardly surprising since it's ages since I 
> had
> a decent cleanup and the system's probably getting due for a reformat. 
> But
> not serious, bootup time is around 60 seconds--not great, but
> tolerable.  There's no obvious problems, apart from a little slowdown. 
> What
> could Explorer possibly be doing at the rate of 100/sec?
>
> I've been downloading some Bittorrent files lately, so the system has been
> running 24/7 for several days.
>
> I've scanned for spyware, virus, etc, but only minor items found.
>
> XP SP2, 1 Gb RAM, virtual memory set at 1.5 Gb min, 3 Gb max.
>
> Should I be worried?
>
> Don Penlington
> From the Beach at Surfers Paradise in sunny Queensland.
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