windows paging Q

[Neil Hodgson]

Gerry Blais:

> My program has a memory usage of 30 MB according to the task manager,
> and is doing 1000+ page faults / second (page fault delta, high speed
> refresh rate).  
> 
> With memory available, any idea why I'm paging so much, and what I
> might do about it?

    Many page faults are soft faults and don't go to disk. Others are 
caused by reading files. Run perfmon for more details and from the 
memory performance object select page reads to see hard page faults.

    Neil