Ramsour Mike wrote:
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.
A reference in Brian Livingston's InfoWorld column led me to
http://www.blackviper.com/ which has all sorts of information about the
mysterious services which run on W2K and XP. Many of these seem to be
unnecessary for general use and so I followed some of BV's directions to
reduce the number of active services with the result that I saved a
significant amount of RAM with no adverse effects.
FWIW
Nicky
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