Tag: soft faults

• The cost of soft/minor faults

  Here is a complete graph of the memory use and fault count for a run of ls -lia. As you can see there are only soft/minor faults here – as one would expect (this was a machine with a lot of memory), as the C library provides the ls function and it will be loaded […]

  Adrian McMenamin

  November 23, 2011

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  hard faults, Hardware, Linux, major faults, Memory, minor faults, Operating Systems, Page fault, soft faults, working set size