Re: Excessive Paging

Ray

How much RAM memory do you have? Right click on your My computer icon on your Desktop and select Properties to get the information.

How large is your C drive and how much free space? In Windows Explorer rigt click on your C drive and select Properties to get this information.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Ray Manning wrote:
I'm running an XP SP2 machine that has experienced an incredible
decrease in performance over the past couple months and I'm trying to
determine why. At first I thought the hard drive might be at fault
since I was seening It would appear to me that the machine is
needlessly paging based on the PerfMon.exe Pages/sec counter and the
taskman performance numbers. Can someone verify I'm on the right track
and possibly offer solutions?

Here's what I'm seeing:

Perfmon.exe (Pages/Sec) averages of 30-60 with a scale of 1

TaskMan: Performance

Physical Memory (K)

Total : 392,496
Available: 170,000
System Cache 240,000


Commit Charge(K)

Total 158,568
Limit 550,000
Peak 170,000

CPU usage averages about 5-20% but of course spikes at times.


What I don't understand, and perhaps it's my interpretation of the
perfmon counter, is why I have such a high page/sec rate when my peak
commit charge isn't even half of the physical memory. Shouldn't my
commit charge be much higher before paging starts hitting 40+
pages/sec? Is page size 4k? 160k/second when I have a couple hundred
megs of physical memory available?

I did not look at these numbers before I started having performance
problems (long boot times, 5 minutes to log on, etc) so perhaps these
are not out of line, but if not, can someone explain to me what I'm
missing in my interpretation?

Thanks,
Ray

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