Memory Page Faults

[Preacher Man]

I am having a huge # of memory page faults. Does this usually reflect
faulty RAM?

 

[Guest]

The actual definition goes like this :

The interrupt that occurs when software attempts to read from or write to a
virtual memory location that is marked "not present."

In Task Manager, page fault is the number of times data has to be retrieved
from disk for a process because it was not found in memory. The page fault
value accumulates from the time the process started.

Huge page faults indicate huge read or write to virtual memory. One of the
reasons to avoid huge fault is to enhance RAM and fine-tune the application,
which is resource hungry.

Regards
Ramki

 

[Preacher Man]

Thanks for the info. We have 1.5GB of RAM in that server. There is a
particular application that I might could fine-tune, but what kind of
fine-tuning are you referring to?

 

[j9]

I would delete the existing swap file, defrag, and rebuild it appropriately.
I'd set it up so that the min is 2xRAM+2meg, and the max is 4095, running on
the fastest drive on the system (hopefully, primary master if on IDE).