[hpsdr] Page Faults

[Steven Wilson]

I'm going to talk about some things that might be causing high page faults
in a system. I'm not assuming knowledge on the recipient - and if this is
already "know" please forgive my presumption.

First - a page fault means that a program needed to get some memory either
for a dynamic memory allocation request, or tried going to a program
location that wasn't in memory, but rather still out on disk.

Possible causes for a high page fault rate.
1) Program much bigger than available memory.
2) Page swap file corruption - or too small.
3) To many programs running (see point 1 above)
4) Some OTHER program is taking up to much memory and starving the program
with the high page fault rate.

Bill - I'm sure I missed a few possibilities.

Steve KA6S
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