We are all at the mercy of the way NT allocates memory and pages memory.  Just because 
you have RAM showing as available does not
mean that NT is not using the page file.  I think NT swaps to page when memory has not 
been accessed in a while (I'm not an NT guru
so I'm just stating how I think it works).  On our primary mail server we have 160 MB 
free RAM but the ColdFusion service has almost
2 1/2 million page faults.  The POST Server has 17729 currently.

HTH,

Howie

----- Original Message -----
From: "Phillip Beazley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "inFusion Support List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 7:21 PM
Subject: Re: [iMS] Page Faults


> At 11:11 AM 2/6/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >A page fault occurs when a program requests access to memory that is in
> >Windows Paged area (Windows uses hard disk storage as memory
> >if there is not enough physical RAM).  So, basically, the system was out
> >of RAM and paged some information to the disk.  POST
> >requested a memory read of this memory area and Windows had to load the
> >information from the disk to RAM.
>
> Hmmm, I've got the same thing happening on one of our servers.  The
> available RAM on that machine has yet to drop below 450MB available,
> though.  Why is it not utilizing the RAM available?
>
>
> --
> Phillip Beazley
> FutureSights -- Website Hosting, Development & E-commerce
> Visit http://www.futuresights.com/ or call 727-578-9600.
>
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