Vista Memory 'Hard Faults'

cavemanoc · 20 Feb 2009 at 19:02

I was digging about in Vista's Resource Monitor, and I was a little surprised to see that I'm getting a constant stream of Memory Hard Faults - is this something to be worried about? Is it worth running memtest or similar?

Edit: "constant stream" is a bit much - but it comes and goes - I'll have a play to see what's causing the most. (Firefox had a few)

gurusan · 20 Feb 2009 at 19:05

The hard faults have to do with how often the swap file is accessed. There's nothing wrong

cavemanoc · 20 Feb 2009 at 19:16

I just ran a quick Prime and it was a little alarming:

Pretty up and down, but that was peaking over 150 faults/second - doesn't sound particularly good to me - what is it supposed to tell us?

XCougar · 20 Feb 2009 at 22:07

I remember seeing this when I tried Vista, and thinking holy crap that looks bad, but as far as I can tell its normal, atleast for Vista, I think its cause Vista swaps data from ram to the pagefile to help speed it up, but you get more errors that way?