TSGL: Page Faults

[Mike Ferrell]

Ok.  My AVG free has around 2 million, Explorer has around 2 million.  The 
biggest is MsMpEng.exe at 5 million.
I have no idea what any of this means,... but that's nothing new.
Mike F.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "A Hasanat Khan" <hasanat at sparkbd.net>
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Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 11:31 PM
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>
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> 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>
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>> 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
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