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From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
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Subject: Re: page fault & degaradation performance
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perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote:
>> how to reduce the number of page faults to upgrade program
>> or OS performance?
>>     
>
> Install more memory.

   1. Reduce the number of processes on the machine, in particular the
      high-memory usage ones.
   2. Adapt your programming to suit the situation by using less
      memory-requisite data types and structures.
   3. Find the memory leak in someone's program and fix it.

-Garrett