TSGL: Page Faults

[H Davis]

I don't think we're seeing anything problematic here. A page fault is 
not an error, it's just a signal to the operating system that a page of 
memory that is mapped as part of a running program isn't currently 
resident and the OS is being asked to get it from wherever it is - the 
cache memory or the paging disk. This, of course, will slow things down 
so removing extra programs that run in the background will improve the 
situation.

I suspect that those with the larger numbers of page faults have either 
had their machines on for a long time or have less system memory 
available, requiring more paging.

H Davis

Mike Ferrell wrote:
> 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.
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "A Hasanat Khan" <hasanat at sparkbd.net>
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> Subject: Re: TSGL: Page Faults
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>> 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
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>>     
>>> 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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