PageFaults

Slater · Sep 24, 2006

Well I've been monitoring my Task manager and I see that TeaTimer.exe (from SpyBot S&D) has a LOT of them. Is this a bad thing?
Is there any way to tweak the executable to not have so many besides debugging it?

Alec§taar · Sep 24, 2006

Slater said:
Well I've been monitoring my Task manager and I see that TeaTimer.exe (from SpyBot S&D) has a LOT of them. Is this a bad thing?

Not really a "bad thing": It is just paging to disk (which is what page faulting is) in/out of the pagefile.sys (your "swapfile" (I use that term loosely, because paging is done in 4096kb increments (pages/page frames) from the program itself, w/ resources it is NOT immediately using so other programs can access more REAL RAM (not virtual memory on disk in the pagefile.sys, & to the OS? It is ALL "Virtual Memory", just so you know) & streams out of the pagefile.sys itself 16k @ a time when accessing pagefile.sys (afaik, this is a read-ahead type mechanism))).

Slater said:
Is there any way to tweak the executable to not have so many besides debugging it?

Not afaik... this is the memory mgr. portion of the OS kernel doing so.

APK

Deleted member 3 · Sep 24, 2006

Pagefaults happen when data can't be found in system memory and have to be retrieved from the harddrive. As far as I know it isn't that bad.

Slater · Sep 24, 2006

Ah alright, I though pagefaults were like errors or something

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