I have a lot of activity of page file and page faults with 2.5 GB of RAM memory

Hello

I tried to find the reason for the slow performance on my pc and the limiting factor seems to be the activity of page file and errors of memory page. It is Win XP sp 3 with 2.5 GB of RAM and a processor 2.8 GHz (core). The task manager has never really shown a problem, memory use was rarely higher than 30%, around 10% page file use (I have the initial value, 3.5 GB 4 GB max) and CPU rarely hits 100%, but even when the task manager has revealed no particular problem the system shuts down sometimes for several seconds on starting the program or file to open. To follow the reason down I have installed a more detailed tracking software, which shows up to 1200 files page per second being transferred to or from the virtual memory and up to 8000 page errors per second during these breaks. This could be the cause, and if I can change all the settings to make more efficient memory management?

Thank you

My copy/paste standard when someone thinks PFs is / are part of their performance problem (but it's probably not...):

I'm guessing that you see in the Task Manager and you have chosen to display the column of Page faults?

If this is the case, given that the column of Page faults is not normally displayed if you activated, perhaps you are looking for some performance issue.

A Page fault does not mean that there is a problem.

A Page fault means generally that the application needs some data that are not in physical memory (RAM) at the time.  When the application needs some data that is not in the local memory and must recover from the paging file on the hard drive which is a way, you will see an error Page generated.

Sounds kind of bad because it has the word 'Fault' in there, but it is really normal.  If you call your task manager after a reboot (do not use any browser), all applications are likely to have at least some page faults, even if you just restarted and "did not" do anything yet.

Some applications may generate a few hundred or a few thousand Page Faults on a restart and then does not change.  The only thing in the task manager that will have zero Page faults is the system idle process, but this is a special case.

Knowing what is a Page fault, you can understand that if your system does not have enough RAM for your operations, XP will need to move out to the pagefile often to get things he needs things there can be not in RAM when he needs.  Whenever she does this, you will have a Page fault.  The less RAM you have, more your applications will have hit the swap file to get their data, but you should be able to control some of this and you may even not notice "" the faults of Page at all--they happen all the time.

So, one might think that if you turned off your pagefile and ran without a paging file, you would see zero Page faults in the Task Manager.  That sounds good, but this isn't the way things work.  XP works best when you have a system managed pagefile size (generally) the value if you probably won't work without a pagefile.

You would always see Page errors in the Task Manager is because there are hard and soft Page faults Page faults, and you would see soft Page faults.

A hard Page fault would be access to the disk paging file.  A soft Page fault would be just a shuffle or the reorganization of the things that are already in memory.  The Task Manager just them put everything in the column Page Fault and you can't make a difference.

Given that the Task Manager offers two types of page faults in a single column you will need else with more granularity (such as performance monitor), tools that allow to separate Page faults in soft Page faults and performance monitoring of hard Page faults.    If you turn off your paging file and use Perfmon to split the Page faults on different types and follow them separately and have no pagefile, you see zero hard Page faults, but still see soft Page faults as a separate counter.

I ran XP for a l-o-n-g time with only 256 MB of RAM and was quite satisfied with her for several years once I dialed things.

Most your system and applications run, Page faults accumulate so that application until the application ends and restarted, then the Page counters error starts to the new and will keep goes upward, upward, toward the top and up - it does not mean necessarily you have a problem and PFs are not likely to be the cause of your performance problems.

I do not think that you will see top-down but you can start them by restarting the application.

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