Dave: The idea is to watch this number for awhile. The info our IBM tech guy gave me said something to the effect that if you start seeing page faults run into the thousands (or possibly more) then that can indicate that you don't have enough RAM installed. A page fault occurs when a program attempts to get data from RAM but can't find it. It then has to read data from the disk and/or swap file. The more RAM you have installed on your system the less often the computer has to read from the disk and swap file.
Hope this helps. Mike Ramsour -----Original Message----- From: David M. Blocker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 11:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Memory crashes in Windows 2000 Mike Thanks! Its the same in Windows XP. OK, I've checked that off, now how do I keep track of the crashes / page faults to see if I'm having the same low RAM issue as you were? David Blocker ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ramsour Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 8:05 AM Subject: RE: Memory crashes in Windows 2000 > David: > > In Windows 2000 do the following: > > 1. Right click on a blank area of the task bar > 2. Click on Task Manager > 3. Click on the Processes tab > 4. Click on View > 5. Click on Select Columns... > > This brings up a dialog box that allows you to select a wide variety of > measurements to track. > > Hope this helps. > > Mike Ramsour > > -----Original Message----- > From: David M. Blocker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 8:45 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Memory crashes in Windows 2000 > > > > > > > Mike > > "Incidentally, I also configured the Windows Task Manager to keep track of > page faults." > > Can you clarify how to do this? It sounds very useful (I'm running Windows > XP and also have regular crashes out of programs that I'm dealing with) > > David Blocker > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ramsour Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 7:15 AM > Subject: Memory crashes in Windows 2000 > > > > Good morning: > > > > I have posted recently about memory crashes that I was encountering > running > > R:Base 6.5++ on a Windows 2000 system. In the hopes that this may help > > others I am happy to report that (at least tentatively) I have found out > > what the problem was. > > > > It appears that the way my system was configured and the amount of disk > > space I had available was causing the Windows swap file to run out of > space. > > Coupled with this was that when I reloaded my database I ran low on disk > > space. Put these two together and I was crashing about every day during > my > > morning program run. I have moved the swap file to my D: drive which has > > more space and also archived several hundred megabytes of database. Since > I > > have done this I have not had a problem all week. > > > > This may explain why I was having similar problems when running Microsoft > > Excel. It would have occasional memory crashes when working with large > > files. > > > > Incidentally, I also configured the Windows Task Manager to keep track of > > page faults. Having a high number of page faults can indicate that you do > > not have enough RAM installed on your system. A page fault happens when > the > > requested data/memory is not in RAM and has to be retrieved from the disk > or > > swap file. In my particular case, my system had nearly 700,000 page > faults > > in the spooler program alone during a 12 hour period. I am having the RAM > > on my system boosted from 256 MB to 768 MB as soon as possible. My new > > system, which I'm supposed to get in a week or two is coming configured > with > > 1GB of RAM and a 2.0 gHz Pentium IV. Woo Hoo!!! > > > > Hope this helps someone out there. > > > > Thanks > > > > Mike Ramsour > > Voice: 1-740-829-4340 > > ================================================ > > TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: > > Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l > > ================================================ > > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l > > ================================================ > > TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/ > > > > > ================================================ > TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: > Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l > ================================================ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l > ================================================ > TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: > http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/ > > ================================================ > TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: > Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l > ================================================ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l > ================================================ > TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: > http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/ > ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/ ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/
