Paulustrious
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I built a new PC with a six-core AMD and 16 gb memory. Vista x64 ultimate went on a 60gb SSD alongside a 2TB raid. This was a brand new installation as my old system had so much crud and 'funnies' that I bit that bullet.
So while installing Visual Studio I decided to revel in Task Manager. Sure enough, there were the six little processor windows all active. I was impressed - I didn't think an installation program would mulit-task so well. And there was the Ram showing about 3gb of 16 being used.
As a matter of curiosity I looked at the resource monitor for memory and there were hundreds of hard faults per minute. (I do hate that name - makes me think there are physical IO errors) Why would any program cause so many page faults when ram is showing less than 20% usage, with no memory spikes in the Physical Memory Usage History graph? (that's the one under the performance tab of TM).
So while installing Visual Studio I decided to revel in Task Manager. Sure enough, there were the six little processor windows all active. I was impressed - I didn't think an installation program would mulit-task so well. And there was the Ram showing about 3gb of 16 being used.
As a matter of curiosity I looked at the resource monitor for memory and there were hundreds of hard faults per minute. (I do hate that name - makes me think there are physical IO errors) Why would any program cause so many page faults when ram is showing less than 20% usage, with no memory spikes in the Physical Memory Usage History graph? (that's the one under the performance tab of TM).
