A seriously dumb question
Looking at Task manager there is a column labeled page faults. What are they Where do they come from (I've got a lot of them). Do I want to get rid of them?,,,if so, how? TIA, Terry.
Looking at Task manager there is a column labeled page faults.
What are they
Where do they come from (I've got a lot of them).
Do I want to get rid of them?,,,if so, how?
TIA,
Terry
What are they
Where do they come from (I've got a lot of them).
Do I want to get rid of them?,,,if so, how?
TIA,
Terry
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As far as I know (and I may be wrong here, it's happened before ) a page fault happens when a program requests some data in memory that is not currently stored in RAM, but is in the paging file (aka swap file, aka virtual memory) - hence the term page fault.
It's a perfectly normal thing to see - in theory, the more RAM you have, the fewer page faults you should see. Although you'll probably never see them go away because Windows still uses it's virtual memory, to keep RAM as free as possible (although we all know how good it is at doing this!!)
Hope this helps,
AndyF
PS - I tried to look on the web to see if I could find an explanation of why page faults still happen in a system with sh*tloads of RAM, but couldn't find anything - anyone want to shed some light on the situation?
It's a perfectly normal thing to see - in theory, the more RAM you have, the fewer page faults you should see. Although you'll probably never see them go away because Windows still uses it's virtual memory, to keep RAM as free as possible (although we all know how good it is at doing this!!)
Hope this helps,
AndyF
PS - I tried to look on the web to see if I could find an explanation of why page faults still happen in a system with sh*tloads of RAM, but couldn't find anything - anyone want to shed some light on the situation?
