Windows 2003 Pagefile Fault Rate14877.350 Faults/sec is ab..

Ajaykumar · External Since: Jun 25, 2009 Posts: 2

In one of my Dell blade server Windows 2003 Enterprise edition and we have
BMC remedy tool to monitor the server activities and every now and then we
get alerts related to Windows 2003 Pagefile Fault Rate14877.350 Faults/sec is
above..

Can somebody explain me the cause for this error and also possible any kind
of remedy in order to resolve this issue

John John - MVP · External Since: Mar 26, 2009 Posts: 10

Might be deceiving information. First you need to determine if these
are hard page faults or soft page faults.

http://blogs.technet.com/askperf/archive/2008/06/10/the-basics-of-page...ults.as
Ask the Performance Team : The Basics of Page Faults

John

Ajaykumar wrote:
> In one of my Dell blade server Windows 2003 Enterprise edition and we have
> BMC remedy tool to monitor the server activities and every now and then we
> get alerts related to Windows 2003 Pagefile Fault Rate14877.350 Faults/sec is
> above..
>
> Can somebody explain me the cause for this error and also possible any kind
> of remedy in order to resolve this issue

Ajaykumar · External Since: Jun 25, 2009 Posts: 2

"John John - MVP" wrote:

> Might be deceiving information. First you need to determine if these
> are hard page faults or soft page faults.
>
> http://blogs.technet.com/askperf/archive/2008/06/10/the-basics-of-page...ults.as
> Ask the Performance Team : The Basics of Page Faults
>
> John

Hi John,

I went to the link provided by you and found that the details are not
sufficient for my query, if you could post me any other suitable resolutions
that would be gratefull

Ajay
> Ajaykumar wrote:
> > In one of my Dell blade server Windows 2003 Enterprise edition and we have
> > BMC remedy tool to monitor the server activities and every now and then we
> > get alerts related to Windows 2003 Pagefile Fault Rate14877.350 Faults/sec is
> > above..
> >
> > Can somebody explain me the cause for this error and also possible any kind
> > of remedy in order to resolve this issue
>

John John - MVP · External Since: Mar 26, 2009 Posts: 10

Ajaykumar wrote:
>
> "John John - MVP" wrote:
>
>> Might be deceiving information. First you need to determine if these
>> are hard page faults or soft page faults.
>>
>> http://blogs.technet.com/askperf/archive/2008/06/10/the-basics-of-page...ults.as
>> Ask the Performance Team : The Basics of Page Faults
>>
>> John
>
> Hi John,
>
> I went to the link provided by you and found that the details are not
> sufficient for my query, if you could post me any other suitable resolutions
> that would be gratefull

Try monitoring the Page Faults on your running processes and see if you
can determine which of your process or applications is responsible for
the high fault rate. If the page faults are in fact hard faults other
than shutting down applications or adding more RAM there isn't really
much that you can do to stop the faults.

John