Page Faults mean that a process wanted some more memory allocated to it, possibly it's just asking for more, and possibly it wants to access something that was already allocated memory, but that has been posted out to the pagefile, with the memory re-assigned to another task
If you have multiple tasks showing lots on the Delta at the same time, then you may be able to make sufficient use of more memory to justify the expense. If not, then you probably don't need more, but that assessment is only for what you are doing at that time. The cumulative faults indicate requests that occurred previously - and include the processes start-up. MEM usage of 241420K is under 256Mb - so it's not even feeling constrained within the 512Mb you have. But that's only the reading at that time. If you are willing to take the hit! you could limit the pagefile to 256Mb and see what becomes painful when the system only has 768Mb of (virtual) memory to play with. But the question is, as ever, is it worth the bother . JimB ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carl Houseman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 4:09 AM Subject: Re: Ram for Win2k > Some programs will cause large numbers of page faults no matter how much RAM > is in the system. Spybot's TeaTimer.exe is one example of that. You can't > rely on that number alone to indicate a performance issue. > > And Staples will take anything back within 14 days for any reason, even if > you opened/used it. So if it doesn't make a discernible difference, you can > get your money back. > > Carl > > -----Original Message----- > From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Mike Miller > Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 10:20 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Ram for Win2k > > (293144 + 260648) < (523760 / 2) > > Since the above is not true, I guess I wasted my money. I will > file the receipt just in case I have problems. > > Unfortunately the local staples was out of stock so I ordered it > at the store, and it will be a week before I can try it. > > Looking at Jim B's criteria, I don't have much for Mem Delta or > PF Delta,. but I have some large numbers for page faults. Mem > Usage is 241420K/1276296K. > > I'm not sure what it all means, but I'm guessing that page > faults aren't good or they wouldn't be faults and using VM is > slower than ram. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf Of Mike Miller Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 4:38 PM > > To: [email protected] Subject: Ram for Win2k > > > > I have 512 MB ram in this Win2k machine. Will I see any > > improvement by adding another 512 MB? I ask because Staples has > > 512 MB for $45 after rebate. > > > > Biostar M7NCD Pro, AMD XP2200 > -- ---------------------------------------- The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html
