Just exploring Task Manager and noticed Page Faults for wltray.exe
jump up 500 (about a one second interval)with no apps running. Is this
normal? It happens with other processes but not as many faults at a
time.
I count 66 processes visible in TM but it says 88 are running. How
do I find out what the other processes are?
TIA
Porte
The name Page Fault sounds like a problem but don't mean you have to
do something so you have zero PFs. You may be able to reduce the
number by knowing what a PF count means. perhaps they should rename
the column "valid page fault" or something less scary.
You can see millions of PFs for a process that is not otherwise
afflicted. XP is doing it's job. It is counting the times XP does
the job - which can be frequently if you watch it.
There is a lot to read about PFs and why they happen. Here is a
paragraph or two and other good reading:
http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.php
The Virtual Memory column is also a good one - who is consuming the
most VM on your system?!
Some things in TM - like the multiple svchosts have other little tasks
running under them. If you want to understand all that, Process
Explorer is a popular tool to peek at what they are doing and why
having more than one is not necessarily a problem:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
Questions are good, but I don't like to answer questions with
sentences that use words like: possibly, maybe, might, could be, etc.
I need to know for sure what is going on.
If you have more, c'mon back.
