jiewmeng Posted November 13, 2010 Share Posted November 13, 2010 I find that I am experiencing lagginess on my laptop, relatively old: C2D T9300, 4GB DDR2, 1280MB GeForce 8600MGTIs high memory faults the cause?Sometimes, the faults are "maxed" out near 100/sec throughout that chart. What are memory faults? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puntoMX Posted November 13, 2010 Share Posted November 13, 2010 Hard Faults are mostly not hardware faults but Page faults, read about it here in this wiki. Did you install and updated all the latest chipset drivers? What chipset are we talking about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jiewmeng Posted November 14, 2010 Author Share Posted November 14, 2010 The chipset is Intel PM965. I am dl-ing the Intel INF now. I read tho that Intel INF is not required on Windows Vista and above I guess thats not true? Also, will disabling Page Files, forcing the use of RAM instead be a good idea? I read on Windows 7 Forums that its not a good idea? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puntoMX Posted November 16, 2010 Share Posted November 16, 2010 The chipset is Intel PM965. I am dl-ing the Intel INF now. I read tho that Intel INF is not required on Windows Vista and above I guess thats not true? Also, will disabling Page Files, forcing the use of RAM instead be a good idea? I read on Windows 7 Forums that its not a good idea?I've my "Page File" set to 64MB or so, but some programs could complain about it but to tell you the truth I've no problems so far. I use 8GB in my system so it also depends on what you run on that PC.I'm moving this topic to the windows 7 section as it's not much of an hardware problem . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted November 16, 2010 Share Posted November 16, 2010 For what it's worth, hard faults happen all of the time, and are nothing to be worried about at such small numbers (trust me, a few hundred at a time are nothing). Laggy behavior on a machine is usually I/O or CPU bound, as those are the resources on a system that are the slowest. Assuming your CPU cores are not maxed out during the time of lag, the next best place to look is I/O, specifically disk I/O (not memory). Also, a good thing to do is run process monitor when the system is working properly to get an idea of what "good" looks like, and then again when the system is lagging and performing otherwise slowly, to see if there is anything repetitive or different that would be obvious (it's the best place to start). After that, you have to start looking at what you are doing when the laptop is slow, and see if there's any specific things that are slow, specific workflows you do, etc. Once you've got that, you can start using perfmon or xperf to see *exactly* what the system is up to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phenomic Posted November 16, 2010 Share Posted November 16, 2010 It could be windows bloat and/or buggines. Boot the latest Ubuntu desktop CD and if there's no "lagginess" then there's nothing wrong with your hardware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJARRRPCGP Posted November 25, 2010 Share Posted November 25, 2010 I suspect throttling because of overheating core. Intels lag on purpose when past a certain temp, part the the Intel processor thermal protection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagicAndre1981 Posted November 25, 2010 Share Posted November 25, 2010 (edited) you should install the WPT, run processmonitor and run those xperf commands:xperf.exe -on -f kernel.etlxperf.exe -start UserTrace -on Microsoft-Windows-Win32k -f user.etlNow do you slow operations and run this:xperf.exe -stop UserTracexperf.exe -stopxperf -merge user.etl kernel.etl slow.etlnow stop the processmonitor trace and zip all data and share them to us. Edited November 25, 2010 by MagicAndre1981 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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