http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ How-To Geek Forums Topic: Memory Hard Faults en Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:41:25 +0000 http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/memory-hard-faults#post-26243 Tue, 27 May 2008 00:03:32 +0000 whs 26243@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Thanks. That makes sense. Now I can sleep better. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/memory-hard-faults#post-26240 Mon, 26 May 2008 23:26:25 +0000 The Geek 26240@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>From MS Site:</p> <p>--------------<br /> Number of Hard Page Faults If a process requests a page in memory and the system cannot find it at the requested location, this constitutes a page fault. (If the page is elsewhere in memory the fault is called a soft page fault. If the page must be retrieved from disk, the fault is called a hard page fault.)<br /> --------------</p> <p><a href='http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/reskit/iisbook/c05_memory_monitoring_specifics.mspx?mfr=true'>http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/reskit/iisbook/c05_memory_monitoring_specifics.mspx?mfr=true</a></p> <p>Basically, when you are doing a system scan, so much data is being loaded and unloaded from memory that the system ends up needing to pull from the page file often, which results in a hard page fault. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/memory-hard-faults#post-26236 Mon, 26 May 2008 23:09:22 +0000 whs 26236@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>During a Kaspersky system scan I was watching my Resource Monitor. In the Memory section it showed a constant 100 to 200 Hard Faults/sec with peaks of over 1000. The CPU utilization at that time was 15% (plus/minus). Is that many memory faults normal? </p>