I've seen several other people have problems with XP and explorer.exe. In my case, every few days, I get an incredible slowdown, and explorer.exe has suddenly started consuming 95-99% of cpu time, and 25+ megs of ram.
One of the nifty new features in XP's task manage is the ability to select which fields you want displayed on the "Processes" tab. Well, lo and behold, when I added "page faults" as a column to display, I find that explorer.exe is causing 1-5 page faults every second.
It's my understanding that a page fault occurs when memory that a program is requesting from the VMM isn't currently in ram and must be loaded from disk. Currently, explorer.exe has had 94,600 page faults on my machine and counting. It was rebooted less than 24 hours ago.
Why would this be happening?
One of the nifty new features in XP's task manage is the ability to select which fields you want displayed on the "Processes" tab. Well, lo and behold, when I added "page faults" as a column to display, I find that explorer.exe is causing 1-5 page faults every second.
It's my understanding that a page fault occurs when memory that a program is requesting from the VMM isn't currently in ram and must be loaded from disk. Currently, explorer.exe has had 94,600 page faults on my machine and counting. It was rebooted less than 24 hours ago.
Why would this be happening?