How do I find the source of soft page faults?

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Published on 2011-02-03T15:26:11Z Indexed on 2011/02/03 15:27 UTC
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I have Windows 7 x64 computer that according to Performance Monitor has 70,000 page faults / second when idling. That's seems like a lot to me (every other computer I check has basically 0 page faults / second when idling).

If I use Resource Monitor or Process Explorer to check hard faults, I see that they are basically 0. So all the page faults are soft.

Normally, soft page faults are not a problem, but I suspect they might be causing issues for this computer given there are so many. I would like to identify what programs are causing the soft faults.

Are there any tools that exist the display the number of soft page faults for each process?

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