svyr
Headphoneus Supremus
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I think its down to "hard pagefaults" now. I have got rid of latency spikes completely now. I can't afford Mac - all pocket money goes on audio gear lol
-most of the hard pagefaults seem to come from antivirus software file monitoring... Might try a more lightweight antivirus.
OK check the above - no more hard pagefaults. If dropouts persist its pretty likely a hardware issue now.
pagefaults are from the OS fetching memory pages from the pagefile on disk instead of RAM (part of the virtual memory extending to disk if necessary. Disk = orders of magnitude slower = bad). You're describing just disk activity by the looks of it
Unless you ran xperf and actually checked the number of hard page faults (where it fetches from disk) and it indicates that's a problem.
Usually, if you have 4+ gb of ram and aren't (you or windows) doing anything accidentally sad or using ram intensive software (e.g. large images, etc) (like windows accidentally paging to your removable usb hard drive) page faults would not be a problem. (you won't really be paging to disk much anyway)
The easiest way to monitor disk activity in win7 is task manager -> performance-> resource monitor -> disk. Incidentally, that also shows use info about paging ( memory tab) - commit charge is the total incl to disk paging, working set is the pages in ram.