I/O others, page faults

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mm

A friend has a program that displays I/O Reads, I/O Writes, and I/O
Others.

Once you have reads and writes, what else can the others be?


It also displays Pages Faulted, and it ranges from 40 to 5000 every
second or so. What the heck is going on!!! I thought page faults
were a rarity, and if not rare, at least not either 40 or 5000 in a
second!
 
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NimbUs

mm said:
A friend has a program that displays I/O Reads, I/O Writes, and I/O
Others.
Once you have reads and writes, what else can the others be?

Opening, closing files for instance.
It also displays Pages Faulted, and it ranges from 40 to 5000 every
second or so. What the heck is going on!!! I thought page faults
were a rarity, and if not rare, at least not either 40 or 5000 in a
second!

You're confounding /illegal page faults/ which are the consequence of
errors in programs and/or in Windows and indeed are rare (or should
be), with regular /page faults/ which are part of how Windows and
other modern OSes work - part of "demand paging", happening all the
time "under the hood"...

HTH
 
M

mm

Opening, closing files for instance.

Oh, okay.

BTW, I found out the program and it's System Explorer 1.5, which is
free, and I think it is great. It's an expanded version of task
manager (cntl-alt-delete for newbies).

For years I've wanted to know, when the harddrive light is on, what
program is doing the reading or writing, and I"ve looked for programs
that would tell this, and this is the first. It displays a moving
graph and one .exe file name after another.

I haven't had to use it in action yet, when the light is on for no
apparrent reason, and I suppose a file name could flash by too quickly
to see, but a short-usage program wouldn't be what worried me anyhow.

It also shows how much the swap file is being used!

There is a newever version on the same home page, but it doesn't look
as much like XP task manager as this one does, so he decided to start
with v1.5.

http://www.systemexplorer.net/download.php which doesn't seem to have
any links, even though it's the download page.

http://system-explorer.en.softonic.com/download or this one, but don't
install the tool bar unless you reallly want it. Hmmm. This is ver.
2.31, even though the latest version is 2.36. But it's running and
has more features.

They seem to share settings and I can't seem to create two different
icons, one for each of them. Dang.
You're confounding /illegal page faults/ which are the consequence of
errors in programs and/or in Windows and indeed are rare (or should

I guess in my family, every time I had a fault, it was so bad it would
have been illegal.
be), with regular /page faults/ which are part of how Windows and
other modern OSes work - part of "demand paging", happening all the
time "under the hood"...
o-KAY!

HTH

It helps a lot. I was afraid no one would answer (although I guess
you answered days ago and I missed it).
 

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