71 million page faults on desktop window manager


  1. Posts : 48
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64Bit
       #1

    71 million page faults on desktop window manager


    Hey

    I have just looked at my processes as my mouse was flickering and noticed that the dwm.exe has 71 million + page faults.

    Should i be concerned by this? Is this a normal figure and if not what steps can i make to lower the fault count?

    See image for what i am referring to!
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  2. Posts : 21,004
    Desk1 7 Home Prem / Desk2 10 Pro / Main lap Asus ROG 10 Pro 2 laptop Toshiba 7 Pro Asus P2520 7 & 10
       #2

    As I am not real sure if this is causing you a problem or should you be worried about it I can only think to start by doing these.

    SFC /SCANNOW Command - System File Checker

    Disk Check for starters.
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  3. Posts : 12,364
    8 Pro x64
       #3

    That looks aberrant.


    Do you have any custom themes installed by any chance?
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  4. Posts : 2,497
    Windows 7 Pro 64 bit
       #4

    A page fault isn't really a fault but a completely normal event. This is the count of pagefaults since system startup. A large number could indicate a problem but we need to know how long the system has been running for it to have any meaning.
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  5. Posts : 48
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64Bit
    Thread Starter
       #5

    LMiller7 said:
    A page fault isn't really a fault but a completely normal event. This is the count of pagefaults since system startup. A large number could indicate a problem but we need to know how long the system has been running for it to have any meaning.
    The system had been running for about 5 hours when i ended the task it improved response time on my mouse and the mouse stop flickering and then it was pretty normal again.

    Although it happens again eventually.

    The only custom change in terms of therm is a background image for the "User Log in" screen.

    I defragged all 3 hard drives, my registry files, i ran an AV, Anti Spyware and ran CCleaner to clean my registry.

    No real problems found. =/

    My ESET nod AV also has 15 million faults from the system running for 6 hours (which has not done a scan today)
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  6. Posts : 12,364
    8 Pro x64
       #6

    Sounds like a memory leak.

    Try disabling ESET's active monitoring.
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  7. Posts : 21,004
    Desk1 7 Home Prem / Desk2 10 Pro / Main lap Asus ROG 10 Pro 2 laptop Toshiba 7 Pro Asus P2520 7 & 10
       #7

    In addition to LMiller's comment mate the system specs would be good too.

    Did you run the two checks I mentioned?
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