What is PF usage under task manager?

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When applications are running, and try to monitor the resource.
Does anyone have any suggestions on wht PF usage is about?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions
Eric
 
Hi Eric,

I'm a little confused by your question. Can you be a little clearer or
specific as to what you want to know about the PF?

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| When applications are running, and try to monitor the resource.
| Does anyone have any suggestions on wht PF usage is about?
| Thanks in advance for any suggestions
| Eric
 
Eric said:
When applications are running, and try to monitor the resource.
Does anyone have any suggestions on wht PF usage is about?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions
Eric
Click to expand...

By PF I presume you mean pagefile....but I don't know what you want to know
about it.

Task Manager is pretty limited. Try Sysinternals Process Monitor
(downloadable from MS, free) for a lot more info about what's running on
your machine.
 
Thank you for your reply
I wouldl like to know what PF is about. Does it have any indication on
memory usage?
Thank you for any suggestions
Eric
 
I can do searching, but I would not sure to find the right one.
Do you have any link for download?
Thank you for any suggestions
Eric
 
Eric,

Here is the link for Process Monitor. The page gives a description of it,
and the download link is at the very bottom of the page:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/processmonitor.mspx

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Curt

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|I can do searching, but I would not sure to find the right one.
| Do you have any link for download?
| Thank you for any suggestions
| Eric
|
| "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:
|
| > > When applications are running, and try to monitor the resource.
| > > Does anyone have any suggestions on wht PF usage is about?
| > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions
| > > Eric
| >
| > By PF I presume you mean pagefile....but I don't know what you want to
know
| > about it.
| >
| > Task Manager is pretty limited. Try Sysinternals Process Monitor
| > (downloadable from MS, free) for a lot more info about what's running on
| > your machine.
| >
| >
| >
 
Eric said:
Thank you for your reply
I wouldl like to know what PF is about. Does it have any indication
on memory usage?
Click to expand...

Pardon my jumping in here...

PF = pagefile = virtual memory.
 
Hi Dave,

I believe I've heard that before too, but in the strictest sense, virtual
memory is only the PF. RAM is physical memory--nothing virtual about it.
Some applications or monitors *may* regard VM that way though.

I got a feeling I've just started something. ;-)

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Curt

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| Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] wrote:
|
| > Pardon my jumping in here...
| >
| > PF = pagefile = virtual memory.
|
| I always thought it was:
|
| Virtual Memory = PF + RAM
|
|
 

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