TSGL: Page Faults
Russell W. Coover
coover at fastmail.fm
Sat Jul 28 00:41:36 EDT 2007
I've never seen this option, and do not have that option on any of my 4
computers, a Vista Ultimate, a Vista Home Premium, a Win XP Home SP2, and a
Win XP Pro SP2. (Maybe it is because none of my computers have any faults?
Hah!)
Russ Coover
-----Original Message-----
From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On
Behalf Of A Hasanat Khan
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 8:31 PM
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Subject: Re: TSGL: Page Faults
Go to View, Select Columns, Page Faults.
I did just now and also find a very large number of page faults. I wish I
knew why.
Will try and google
Hasanat
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Ferrell" <ferrellm at charter.net>
To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" <list at tsgserver.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007 4:07 AM
Subject: Re: TSGL: Page Faults
> 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.
>> Computer tutorials, local scenery, and other things at my website:
>> http://users.tpg.com.au/deepend/index1.html
>>
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