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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gust334" data-source="post: 275217" data-attributes="member: 7347">Here in the USA we celebrate winning our independence from the domination of England on this day.I have a friend outside London who says they hoist a pint to "Good Riddance" on this day.Back on topic... page faults occur in any software and are not necessarily evil things.  Every software has circumstances where a page might not be in the present working set.  However, so many faults generated per second, continuously for hours, is a strong indicator of something wrong in memory management.I haven't been able to find any concrete data on live antivirus innards, but I speculate TPA is shot-gunning memory accesses all over the virtual memory space, and every time one causes a new page to be mapped, the antivirus sees the new address range and decides it needs to scan the new page and some number above and below it... and since those pages are not yet mapped, they generate their own faults.  This speculation could explain why those people using antivirus that has a live scanning process see significantly more degraded performance than those without live scanning.</blockquote>

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