Performance Monitor counter for system memory (RAM)?

[John Doe]

If possible, I guess monitoring RAM usage would be under the
performance object "memory", but I don't see anything there that
resembles CPU or hard drive usage monitoring.

Is there a performance Monitor indicator for RAM performance? I
don't mean the amount of RAM in use, I mean like how frequently or
to what extent data in RAM is being accessed, if there is such an
indicator.

Thank you.

 

[Ron Martell]

If possible, I guess monitoring RAM usage would be under the
performance object "memory", but I don't see anything there that
resembles CPU or hard drive usage monitoring.

Is there a performance Monitor indicator for RAM performance? I
don't mean the amount of RAM in use, I mean like how frequently or
to what extent data in RAM is being accessed, if there is such an
indicator.

RAM is constantly being accessed, as all Windows code, application
programs and device drivers as well as data is contained in RAM.

By design Windows always attempts to find some use, anything whatever
that might potentially be of some benefit, for every bit of the
installed RAM rather than just leaving that RAM sitting there idly
going to rot. So Windows will retain the program code from closed
applications and use large amounts of RAM for disk cache whenever
there is RAM available to do so.
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[John Doe]

RAM is constantly being accessed, as all Windows code, application
programs and device drivers as well as data is contained in RAM.

How frequently memory is accessed depends on user/program activity.

By design Windows always attempts to find some use, anything
whatever that might potentially be of some benefit, for every bit
of the installed RAM rather than just leaving that RAM sitting
there idly going to rot.

Hopefully it does all that, but the usage varies depending on what
the user and his programs are doing. The amount of RAM allocated for
use is different than how frequently it's being used. I know how to
monitor physical RAM in use but I don't know how to monitor RAM
activity. I see a bunch of counters for page faults but I don't see
what might indicate ordinary activity. Maybe there is no such
indicator, or maybe I just don't know that counter's name.

I'm asking whether there is a counter for how frequently or how much
the RAM is used, like how many writes per second, how many times per
second data/pages/whatever is accessed, and so on.

Thanks.