Why are there hard faults when my RAM is not 100% used?
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Mar 15, 20266641 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I've got 2GB of RAM and the resource monitor shows that it's only used about 75%. However there are some apps (NetBeans, Visual Studio) that every once in a while start making a lot of hard faults (up to and over 2000/min), thus predictably slowing down to a crawl. How is this so? The memory usage …
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When a program is started, it is not necessarily completely loaded into memory, just enough is loaded that is required at any given time. When program code is called that is not yet in physical RAM, a page fault (or hard fault) is raised and the OS …
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