When I run the Resource Monitor and look at the Processes Tab I am getting Hard Faults/sec. This is something which I didn't expect with my PC setup, so should I be getting them & should I be concerned?
If I understand correctly Hard Faults/sec is essentially the amount of paging going on. Paging, I believe, is writing RAM contents out to disk when there's not enough RAM to hold everything which wants to use RAM and then reading it back into RAM again when it needs to be used in RAM.
If this is so then why am I getting Hard Faults, when I have 24Gb of RAM and am only using 25% of it when these Hard Faults are occuring?
Surly it should use the rest of the RAM before paging starts? Is this something I should be concerned about?
The screen print below(sorry problems inserting the jpg image) shows 21 Hard Faults/sec for Photoshop, the maxed at around 550/sec when its first loaded & then up to 30 depending on what is done within it, e.g. load a photo. This is typical of other programs e.g. Lightroom, MSWord (may be less initially), IE, Excel etc.
Cheers & thanks for any help,
Myk
My PC Spec........................................................................................................................................
Case COOLERMASTER SILEO 500 QUIET MID TOWER CASE
Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-960 (3.20GHz) 4.8GTs/8MB Cache
Motherboard ASUS® P6X58D PREMIUM: DDR3, USB 3.0 & SATA 6.0GB/s, 3-Way SLI
Memory (RAM) 24GB SAMSUNG DDR3 TRI-DDR3 1333MHz (6 X 4GB)
Graphics Card 1GB AMD RADEON™ HD6870 - 2 DVI,HDMI,2 mDP - DirectX® 11, Eyefinity 4 Capable
Memory - 1st Hard Disk Crucial C300 256GB SSD
2nd Hard Disk 2TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD2002FAEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE
3rd Hard Disk 2TB WD CAVIAR GREEN WD20EARS, SATA 3 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive 12x BLU-RAY RE-WRITER DRIVE, 16x DVD ±R/±RW
2nd DVD/BLU-RAY Drive 12x BLU-RAY ROM DRIVE, 16x DVD ±R/±RW
Memory Card Reader INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (XD, MS, CF, SD, etc) + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT
Power Supply CORSAIR 750W TX SERIES (TX750) 80+ ULTRA QUIET PSU
Processor Cooling SUPER QUIET 22dBA TRIPLE COPPER HEATPIPE CPU COOLER
Sound Card Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ Titanium PCI Express
Network Facilities ONBOARD 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT - AS STANDARD ON ALL PCs
USB Options 6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD
Operating System Genuine Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence
Office Software OFFICE 2007 Professional
Anti-Virus NIS 2012
Wattage Max Reqd Power 677W
If I understand correctly Hard Faults/sec is essentially the amount of paging going on. Paging, I believe, is writing RAM contents out to disk when there's not enough RAM to hold everything which wants to use RAM and then reading it back into RAM again when it needs to be used in RAM.
If this is so then why am I getting Hard Faults, when I have 24Gb of RAM and am only using 25% of it when these Hard Faults are occuring?
Surly it should use the rest of the RAM before paging starts? Is this something I should be concerned about?
The screen print below(sorry problems inserting the jpg image) shows 21 Hard Faults/sec for Photoshop, the maxed at around 550/sec when its first loaded & then up to 30 depending on what is done within it, e.g. load a photo. This is typical of other programs e.g. Lightroom, MSWord (may be less initially), IE, Excel etc.
Cheers & thanks for any help,
Myk
My PC Spec........................................................................................................................................
Case COOLERMASTER SILEO 500 QUIET MID TOWER CASE
Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-960 (3.20GHz) 4.8GTs/8MB Cache
Motherboard ASUS® P6X58D PREMIUM: DDR3, USB 3.0 & SATA 6.0GB/s, 3-Way SLI
Memory (RAM) 24GB SAMSUNG DDR3 TRI-DDR3 1333MHz (6 X 4GB)
Graphics Card 1GB AMD RADEON™ HD6870 - 2 DVI,HDMI,2 mDP - DirectX® 11, Eyefinity 4 Capable
Memory - 1st Hard Disk Crucial C300 256GB SSD
2nd Hard Disk 2TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD2002FAEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE
3rd Hard Disk 2TB WD CAVIAR GREEN WD20EARS, SATA 3 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive 12x BLU-RAY RE-WRITER DRIVE, 16x DVD ±R/±RW
2nd DVD/BLU-RAY Drive 12x BLU-RAY ROM DRIVE, 16x DVD ±R/±RW
Memory Card Reader INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (XD, MS, CF, SD, etc) + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT
Power Supply CORSAIR 750W TX SERIES (TX750) 80+ ULTRA QUIET PSU
Processor Cooling SUPER QUIET 22dBA TRIPLE COPPER HEATPIPE CPU COOLER
Sound Card Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ Titanium PCI Express
Network Facilities ONBOARD 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT - AS STANDARD ON ALL PCs
USB Options 6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD
Operating System Genuine Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence
Office Software OFFICE 2007 Professional
Anti-Virus NIS 2012
Wattage Max Reqd Power 677W