What Microsoft Dosen't Want You to See in the Bowels of their Operatin


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Page fault are not errors in the operating system. It is normal to see these number increase. Basically they mean that the program has tried to find data in memory, found that it is not there and had to read the data from disk. The following is an expert from Performance Monitor:

Page Faults/sec is the overall rate faulted pages are handled by the processor. It is measured in numbers of pages faulted per second. A page fault occurs when a process requires code or data that is not in its working set (its space in physical memory). This counter includes both hard faults (those that require disk access) and soft faults (where the faulted page is found elsewhere in physical memory). Most processors can handle large numbers of soft faults without consequence. However, hard faults can cause significant delays. This counter displays the difference between the values observed in the last two samples, divided by the duration of the sample interval.

Do some research on the facts before scare mongering.

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