I am often asked about perfmon’s Performance tab’s PF Usage and Physical Memory (K) Available readings. Pagefile usage is always high, but I’m not sure how to explain it.
There is a lot to talk about here…since this is a database blog, I’m going to provide the links to Microsoft’s published documentation so anyone who wants to get some good background information can do so. It’s certainly worth reading if you want to bone up on your Windows internals knowledge:
Hope that helps!