What is Peformance Monitor telling me when my page faults / second are high?
- by David Robison
I have a Windows 7 x64 computer that is having performance issues. After some investigation, I have discovered that the page faults / second on it, as reported by Performance Monitor, are really high.
Everything else seems to be normal. Resource Monitor reports no hard faults and lots of available memory.
Is this a potential cause for problems, or is it a red herring? If it is something that could be causing problems, what should I do next to figure out what is causing it?
Here is a screen shot of the Performance Monitor. Notice that the average page faults / second is 75,887. On another computer that does not have problems, this number is closer to 3,000.
Here is a screen shot of the Resource Monitor, sorted by hard faults / second, which is currently 0 for all processes.