Page Fault high???

Hello:

I have been chasing a memory leak for several weeks. I noticed the Page
Faults for "dllhost.exe" are over a million and the number is slowly
creaping higher and higher. This seems excessively high?

Does anyone know anything about "dllhost.exe" and high Page Faults
associated with it? Is this normal? Is this my memory leak? How can I
track it from here.

Harrison Midkiff

Page faults are not necessarily indicative of a memory leak. To identify
those, you need to watch 2 performance counters:

Process:PrivateBytes
Process:Virtual Memory Used

If the curves slope up in parallel, then you have a memory leak.
If the curves divurge, then you have memory fragmentation (which is similar
but different).

Keep in mind that a web server's various caches can take 1+hours to 'warm
up', so don't sweat the early indicators.

Pat

"Harrison Midkiff" <HMidkiff RemoveThis @aviinc.com> wrote in message
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 > Hello:
 >
 > I have been chasing a memory leak for several weeks. I noticed the Page
 > Faults for "dllhost.exe" are over a million and the number is slowly
 > creaping higher and higher. This seems excessively high?
 >
 > Does anyone know anything about "dllhost.exe" and high Page Faults
 > associated with it? Is this normal? Is this my memory leak? How can I
 > track it from here.
 >
 > Harrison Midkiff
 >
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