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I am running Windows 7 with 32GB of RAM and have disabled my PageFile.

However, in Resource Monitor, the Memory tab is still showing values for Hard Faults/sec. I've read that this metric should display how many times per second a program is being read out of the PageFile on disk.

Given that I have mine disabled (and have rebooted), why am I still seeing non-zero values for this metric? Also, might this graph include Soft Faults too?

Screenshot of zero page file and still seeing hard faults / sec

Jesan Fafon
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I've read that this metric should display how many times per second a program is being read out of the PageFile on disk.

Then you've clearly read some bogus rubbish. It's quite wrong to think that in a demand-paged operating system the only possible backing store for memory pages is the system page file. Program image files containing the code and (read-only/untainted) data for running programs are another possibility. Then there are explicitly memory mapped files.

Further reading

JdeBP
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