[mqa]

wow, i think 10.2.6 has some problems, since upgrading i've been getting thousands of page faults per second. it doesn't seem to affect the performance of my system, but when you have 73 million page faults over the course of 4 days, 200 thousand of which happen before starting up is complete, one tends to worry.

Any one have any advice?

[suthercd]

That's Translation faults- and they are part of the normal interactions within memory. Fault in this cause does not mean that something is not working properly, it refers to the way the kernel provides memory access for processes. Both physical memory and virtual memory are organized into addresses. Translation maps a virtual memory address to a physical(RAM) memory address. Faults are like error trapping in software. If that map has an error, it throughs a fault and memory management in the CPU handles it.

The fact that OS X uses virtual memory is a big part of making it crash protected.

Craig

[philzilla]

Originally posted by mqa:
Any one have any advice?

yes. read these two threads, see if you share any of the same symptoms, and let them know yours:

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...hreadid=161430

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...hreadid=161507

[mqa]

As I mentioned in my my first post, I am not experiencing any performance issues, I was merely concerned that I am getting thousands of these things a second, from the moment my computer starts up, to the moment it shuts down. It just seemed unusual to me.