I just completed a new build using a 3770K and 16GB of Crucial Ballistix Tracer RAM (1866MHz) and I noticed a large amount of hard faults on the resource monitor. I understand that this is where the system will grab files from the paging file instead of the RAM. 16GB is obviously plenty and I'm using an SSD so I disabled the paging file completely. When opening or closing programs the Hard Faults/sec graph will spike to around 50-100 and then come back down. Is this something to be concerned about? I am using W7 by the way.
http://www.brighthub.com/computing/windows-platform/articles/52249.aspx i wouldnt worry too much about 100 hard faults/sec, especally if opening/closing programs
Thanks for the reply. The amount of HF/s can vary depending on the program. Sonar can momentarily cause upwards of 600. It seems all the articles are about people with limited amounts of RAM but with 16GB that definitely isn't the program, not to mention I don't even have a paging file. My memory usage is only around 10% and there is no noticable lag or instability (RAM is not overclocked). Is this kind of issue not really relevant with SSD's and lots of RAM?