Perofmance / Paging Question

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From: Bob (uctraingNOSPAM_at_ultranet.com)
Date: 03/04/04 

Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 02:38:24 GMT

I have a graphic application that runs rather slowly. When I look at
the performance stats, I see that it is encountering what appear to
be a large number of page faults:

Mem usage: 74K-K
VM Size 60K-K
Page Faults: 48K
I/O Reads: 11K
I/O Bytes 34M

The system has 384MB of physical Ram, and it has over 200mb available
at any given time. So, why all the paging ? Shouldn't this application
be able to keep itself in memory and avoid all the paging? Or is Win2K
paging measuring something other than what I think ? Is there any way
to tune the system to allow this application to take more memory ?
(I've fooled with priority already, that was not a good thing to do).

Thanks,
 

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