TSGL: Page Faults

[Trio800_BonBon]

Russ, You're on the USERS tab. Click on the Processes 
tab, then view, select columns.

Bob

Russell W. Coover wrote:
> I'm working on my XP Home Laptop right now and under Task Manager, View,
> Select Columns, I have options for ID, Status, Chart Name, and Session, but
> no Page Fault option. Perhaps I'm doing something wrong?
> 
> Russ
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On
> Behalf Of Don Penlington
> Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007 12:46 AM
> To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List
> Subject: Re: TSGL: Page Faults
> 
> At 09:41 PM 7/27/2007 -0700, you wrote:
>> I've never seen this option, and do not have that option on any of my 4
>> computers>>
> 
> 
> View is a function of Task Manager that few people seem to know 
> about.  Task Manager is actually quite a powerful diagnostic utility that 
> very few people use to its full potential or even know about, except for 
> the cut-down basic view we all use and seldom go beyond.  There are many 
> diagnostics which can be turned on via its View function, as Hasanat Khan 
> mentions.
> 
> Problem is, unless you're a technician, most of them don't mean anything 
> much to the average user. Shame, all that lovely data going to waste.
> 
> Since writing yesterday, my page faults have escalated from 77M to 85M.  Is 
> my computer burning out?Just as well they're not all logged (well, I HOPE 
> they're not), or the HD would soon be saturated.
> 
> I know what page faults are, but I'd like to know what's normal. And what 
> keeps them happening continously?
> 
> There are plenty of tutorials, but nothing that helps much, other than to 
> say that excessive pagefile swapping is detrimental. There's an excellent 
> and very clear article on virtual memory, for those wanting to learn about 
> this topic, by Alex Nichol at http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.php.
> 
> If I don't get an easy answer from you experts, I'll investigate 
> further---once I know what's normal. I wonder if Safe Mode would be any 
> different. If that eliminates the faults, then it will be trial and error 
> to find the cause, although I suspect it's something in the operating 
> system itself (as it's largely tied to Explorer).
> 
> I did a little bit of housekeeing last night, and performance is now pretty 
> normal, so I don't think the "excessive(?)" page faulting is anything to 
> worry about.
> 
> Since writing the above, I turned off a clock add-on ("Chameleon Clock") 
> which I know is hooked into Explorer, and which was also showing a large 
> number of page faults. That has reduced the page faults in Explorer down 
> from 500/sec to 1/sec.
> 
> So the number I was getting is clearly abnormal. I guess if I turn 
> everything else off I might get it down to zero.  Wheeee.
> 
> But there's no improvement in performance.  Maybe it doesn't matter.
> 
> Don Penlington
> 
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