Hello,

I'm encountering 8000-10000 page faults per second roughly about every 20-30
minutes. The programs with the highest page fault counts are not always the
same. My system freezes for about 2 minutes, but I can hear a lot of disk
activity. This causes time-sensitive programs to fail, e.g., Skype
(communications).

I've spent weeks living with this and trying to figure out what is happening,
but to no avail. I've done a lot of research, but found nothing that will
fix this problem.

None of my system settings have odd values. I checked and re-checked all of
them several times. I use System Mechanic 8.0.3.

I've used Microsoft's Performance tool to test everything testable using it.
So far all I can find is the high page faults and sometimes long disk queues,
especially, read queues. I have tried splitting the paging file evenly on
Drive C: and Drive D:.

I'm out of ideas. Does anyone have any suggestions?


System:

DELL XPS630i Intel Core2 Extreme (4 cores) CPU Q6850 @ 3.00GHz
4GB RAM (Windows only allows access to 3.25GB)
Internal Drive #1: - C: 360GB Interface: nVidia RAID SATA-II
Internal Drive #2: - 1TB (2 partitions, D: 513GB, F: 487GB Interface: nVidia
RAID SATA-II

Thank you,
Don

Malware infection?
---
Leonard Grey
Errare Humanum Est

Don Leckie wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm encountering 8000-10000 page faults per second roughly about every 20-30
> minutes. The programs with the highest page fault counts are not always the
> same. My system freezes for about 2 minutes, but I can hear a lot of disk
> activity. This causes time-sensitive programs to fail, e.g., Skype
> (communications).
>
> I've spent weeks living with this and trying to figure out what is happening,
> but to no avail. I've done a lot of research, but found nothing that will
> fix this problem.
>
> None of my system settings have odd values. I checked and re-checked all of
> them several times. I use System Mechanic 8.0.3.
>
> I've used Microsoft's Performance tool to test everything testable using it.
> So far all I can find is the high page faults and sometimes long disk queues,
> especially, read queues. I have tried splitting the paging file evenly on
> Drive C: and Drive D:.
>
> I'm out of ideas. Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
>
> System:
>
> DELL XPS630i Intel Core2 Extreme (4 cores) CPU Q6850 @ 3.00GHz
> 4GB RAM (Windows only allows access to 3.25GB)
> Internal Drive #1: - C: 360GB Interface: nVidia RAID SATA-II
> Internal Drive #2: - 1TB (2 partitions, D: 513GB, F: 487GB Interface: nVidia
> RAID SATA-II
>
> Thank you,
> Don

Hardly a malware issue."Spliting the page-file",no such animal.One can
use 2 hds with a page-file,but each hd contains its own,and xp switches as
it needs to.Youre page file is ok set to both,however set both to "let system
manage"..As for "Page-fault" more ram memory might help..Also,for technical
data on it,go
to:http://www.osronline.com/custom.cfm?...int.cfm&id=222

"Don Leckie" wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm encountering 8000-10000 page faults per second roughly about every 20-30
> minutes. The programs with the highest page fault counts are not always the
> same. My system freezes for about 2 minutes, but I can hear a lot of disk
> activity. This causes time-sensitive programs to fail, e.g., Skype
> (communications).
>
> I've spent weeks living with this and trying to figure out what is happening,
> but to no avail. I've done a lot of research, but found nothing that will
> fix this problem.
>
> None of my system settings have odd values. I checked and re-checked all of
> them several times. I use System Mechanic 8.0.3.
>
> I've used Microsoft's Performance tool to test everything testable using it.
> So far all I can find is the high page faults and sometimes long disk queues,
> especially, read queues. I have tried splitting the paging file evenly on
> Drive C: and Drive D:.
>
> I'm out of ideas. Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
>
> System:
>
> DELL XPS630i Intel Core2 Extreme (4 cores) CPU Q6850 @ 3.00GHz
> 4GB RAM (Windows only allows access to 3.25GB)
> Internal Drive #1: - C: 360GB Interface: nVidia RAID SATA-II
> Internal Drive #2: - 1TB (2 partitions, D: 513GB, F: 487GB Interface: nVidia
> RAID SATA-II
>
> Thank you,
> Don
>

Rubbish!
I say it is a Malware issue.
Get Malewarebites, or whatever it is called.
--
---
Leonard Grey
Errare Humanum Est



"Andrew E." wrote:

> Hardly a malware issue."Spliting the page-file",no such animal.One can
> use 2 hds with a page-file,but each hd contains its own,and xp switches as
> it needs to.Youre page file is ok set to both,however set both to "let system
> manage"..As for "Page-fault" more ram memory might help..Also,for technical
> data on it,go
> to:http://www.osronline.com/custom.cfm?...int.cfm&id=222
>
> "Don Leckie" wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm encountering 8000-10000 page faults per second roughly about every 20-30
> > minutes. The programs with the highest page fault counts are not always the
> > same. My system freezes for about 2 minutes, but I can hear a lot of disk
> > activity. This causes time-sensitive programs to fail, e.g., Skype
> > (communications).
> >
> > I've spent weeks living with this and trying to figure out what is happening,
> > but to no avail. I've done a lot of research, but found nothing that will
> > fix this problem.
> >
> > None of my system settings have odd values. I checked and re-checked all of
> > them several times. I use System Mechanic 8.0.3.
> >
> > I've used Microsoft's Performance tool to test everything testable using it.
> > So far all I can find is the high page faults and sometimes long disk queues,
> > especially, read queues. I have tried splitting the paging file evenly on
> > Drive C: and Drive D:.
> >
> > I'm out of ideas. Does anyone have any suggestions?
> >
> >
> > System:
> >
> > DELL XPS630i Intel Core2 Extreme (4 cores) CPU Q6850 @ 3.00GHz
> > 4GB RAM (Windows only allows access to 3.25GB)
> > Internal Drive #1: - C: 360GB Interface: nVidia RAID SATA-II
> > Internal Drive #2: - 1TB (2 partitions, D: 513GB, F: 487GB Interface: nVidia
> > RAID SATA-II
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Don
> >

Obviously, I would never say such a thing.

To bring people up to date:

I am the real Leonard Grey. The rude post copied below was not created
by me. It was created by a disturbed individual named Murphy.

Murphy is a very angry person, and he is apparently suffering side
effects from taking Rimonabant (brand name: Zimultri, produced by
Sanofi-Adventis.) Rimonabant is an anti-obesity drug that has been
documented by the United States FDA to cause severe depression.

Murphy's game is to try to impersonate people in these newsgroups, and
then make rude and even revolting posts in their names. He's done it to
nass, he's done it to me, and to others. Unfortunately, there's nothing
anyone can do about it, AFAIK.

It's not hard to tell the difference between posts made me - the real
me - and Murphy's impersonation. I never make posts like the ones Murphy
makes in my name. And I don't post from the MS web interface, as Murphy
does.

I won't post to this thread again, so any subsequent posts in this
thread that have my name on them are coming from Murphy.

To the OP: I'm sorry this mess has gotten in the way of your getting the
answer you need. Please understand there's nothing I can do about it.
---
Leonard Grey
Errare Humanum Est

Leonard Grey wrote:
> Rubbish!
> I say it is a Malware issue.
> Get Malewarebites, or whatever it is called.

Thank you for help. Yes, I used the wrong term "splitting". I meant 2
page files as you mentioned.

The article was helpful in understanding page faults. Unfortunately, I
found nothing to help me fix this problem.

My Windows XP SP3 has 4GB RAM. I cannot add any more.



********* NEW ***********

Using "X-Setup Pro" I noticed that that setting for "48 bit addressing" was
unchecked. I know that SP3 has 48 bit addressing by default, but I don't
know if it's disabled so that 32 bit addressing is enabled. But in that
case I wouldn't be able to read/write to my 320GB and 1TB hard disks.

Thank you again,
Don





=?Utf-8?B?QW5kcmV3IEUu?= <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
news:54ED28EC-D052-4101-9561-(E-Mail Removed):

> Hardly a malware issue."Spliting the page-file",no such animal.One can
> use 2 hds with a page-file,but each hd contains its own,and xp switches
> as it needs to.Youre page file is ok set to both,however set both to
> "let system manage"..As for "Page-fault" more ram memory might
> help..Also,for technical data on it,go
> to:http://www.osronline.com/custom.cfm?...int.cfm&id=222
>
> "Don Leckie" wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm encountering 8000-10000 page faults per second roughly about every
>> 20-30 minutes. The programs with the highest page fault counts are
>> not always the same. My system freezes for about 2 minutes, but I can
>> hear a lot of disk activity. This causes time-sensitive programs to
>> fail, e.g., Skype (communications).
>>
>> I've spent weeks living with this and trying to figure out what is
>> happening, but to no avail. I've done a lot of research, but found
>> nothing that will fix this problem.
>>
>> None of my system settings have odd values. I checked and re-checked
>> all of them several times. I use System Mechanic 8.0.3.
>>
>> I've used Microsoft's Performance tool to test everything testable
>> using it. So far all I can find is the high page faults and sometimes
>> long disk queues, especially, read queues. I have tried splitting the
>> paging file evenly on Drive C: and Drive D:.
>>
>> I'm out of ideas. Does anyone have any suggestions?
>>
>>
>> System:
>>
>> DELL XPS630i Intel Core2 Extreme (4 cores) CPU Q6850 @ 3.00GHz
>> 4GB RAM (Windows only allows access to 3.25GB)
>> Internal Drive #1: - C: 360GB Interface: nVidia RAID SATA-II
>> Internal Drive #2: - 1TB (2 partitions, D: 513GB, F: 487GB Interface:
>> nVidia RAID SATA-II
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Don
>>

Dear OP:
Do not be fooled by the idiots/con artists that frequent these Newsgroups.

My name, "Leonard Grey", is just one of the many aliases that
spammers/spoofers use here.

You will have noticed the "subtle" way they are trying to push their weight
loss product rubbish.

Any posts from he/she, totally ignore for your own Net safety.
If you read between the lines of the reply, you will recognise the "True" me!

Regards.
--
---
Leonard Grey
Errare Humanum Est



"Don Leckie" wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm encountering 8000-10000 page faults per second roughly about every 20-30
> minutes. The programs with the highest page fault counts are not always the
> same. My system freezes for about 2 minutes, but I can hear a lot of disk
> activity. This causes time-sensitive programs to fail, e.g., Skype
> (communications).
>
> I've spent weeks living with this and trying to figure out what is happening,
> but to no avail. I've done a lot of research, but found nothing that will
> fix this problem.
>
> None of my system settings have odd values. I checked and re-checked all of
> them several times. I use System Mechanic 8.0.3.
>
> I've used Microsoft's Performance tool to test everything testable using it.
> So far all I can find is the high page faults and sometimes long disk queues,
> especially, read queues. I have tried splitting the paging file evenly on
> Drive C: and Drive D:.
>
> I'm out of ideas. Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
>
> System:
>
> DELL XPS630i Intel Core2 Extreme (4 cores) CPU Q6850 @ 3.00GHz
> 4GB RAM (Windows only allows access to 3.25GB)
> Internal Drive #1: - C: 360GB Interface: nVidia RAID SATA-II
> Internal Drive #2: - 1TB (2 partitions, D: 513GB, F: 487GB Interface: nVidia
> RAID SATA-II
>
> Thank you,
> Don
>

Oh well. This is the fourth night in a row that Murphy is impersonating
me, and making posts under my name.

To the OP: I am the real Leonard Grey. I - and others in these
newsgroups - are being victimized by a poor soul by the name of Murphy.

Murphy's little game is to try to impersonate people in these
newsgroups, and then make ridiculous and even revolting posts in their
names - posts that we would never make on our own. Unfortunately,
there's nothing anyone can do about it.

It's not hard to tell the difference between posts made me - the real
me - and Murphy's impersonation. I never make posts like the ones Murphy
makes in my name. And I don't post from the MS web interface, as Murphy
does.

Murphy is a very angry person, and he is suffering side effects from
taking Rimonabant (brand name: Zimultri, produced by Sanofi-Adventis.)
Rimonabant is an anti-obesity drug that has been documented by the
United States FDA to cause severe depression.

I'm very sorry that your question has become wrapped up in this mess. I
won't be making any more posts to this thread, so any subsequent posts
that you read that have my name on them were not made by me.

To Murphy: I want to believe that you would not be making such a fool of
yourself were it not for Rimonabant, and whatever else you may be taking
to manage the side effects. Take yourself off these drugs, Murphy. You
don't need to hurt yourself any longer.
---
Leonard Grey
Errare Humanum Est

Leonard Grey wrote:
> Dear OP:
> Do not be fooled by the idiots/con artists that frequent these Newsgroups.
>
> My name, "Leonard Grey", is just one of the many aliases that
> spammers/spoofers use here.
>
> You will have noticed the "subtle" way they are trying to push their weight
> loss product rubbish.
>
> Any posts from he/she, totally ignore for your own Net safety.
> If you read between the lines of the reply, you will recognise the "True" me!
>
> Regards.

Don, now you see what I am up against.
I use the Web interface. It is easier, and all I have to do is log into the
MS servers.
But, I DO have to log in!

This SPOOFER admits(the gall of it) to posting from different locations.
There has NEVER been a Nick Murphy post here!

A Mick Murphy DOES post here; but only helpful and informative posts to the
OPs.
Go through the various posts yourself.
Where this weight thing comes from, I have no idea, other than his and
another fake poster "nass".

This fake "grey" has all the properties of a Troll:

http://www.hyphenologist.co.uk/killf..._troll_faq.htm

I have read all the stereotypes of a Troll above, and this "grey" fits most
of them.
As you can see, all we can do, is put up with it, and HOPE that he just GOES
AWAY!

Thank you for your time.
--
---
Leonard Grey
Errare Humanum Est



"Don Leckie" wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm encountering 8000-10000 page faults per second roughly about every 20-30
> minutes. The programs with the highest page fault counts are not always the
> same. My system freezes for about 2 minutes, but I can hear a lot of disk
> activity. This causes time-sensitive programs to fail, e.g., Skype
> (communications).
>
> I've spent weeks living with this and trying to figure out what is happening,
> but to no avail. I've done a lot of research, but found nothing that will
> fix this problem.
>
> None of my system settings have odd values. I checked and re-checked all of
> them several times. I use System Mechanic 8.0.3.
>
> I've used Microsoft's Performance tool to test everything testable using it.
> So far all I can find is the high page faults and sometimes long disk queues,
> especially, read queues. I have tried splitting the paging file evenly on
> Drive C: and Drive D:.
>
> I'm out of ideas. Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
>
> System:
>
> DELL XPS630i Intel Core2 Extreme (4 cores) CPU Q6850 @ 3.00GHz
> 4GB RAM (Windows only allows access to 3.25GB)
> Internal Drive #1: - C: 360GB Interface: nVidia RAID SATA-II
> Internal Drive #2: - 1TB (2 partitions, D: 513GB, F: 487GB Interface: nVidia
> RAID SATA-II
>
> Thank you,
> Don
>