The Wired Knight wrote:trythil wrote:The Wired Knight wrote:That's a windows problem it does it to all sorts of programs and means nothing nintey percent of the time. Windows does this as a failsafe against codes and system operations it does not recognize, the thing is that it's more of a pain in the ass than a help. Disregard it, it will keep coming up but nothing is wrong.
You couldn't be more wrong; I've already stated why.
You can blame microsoft for that one, it's what they always tell me everytime I call and tell them taht Netscape crashed even when it is the only program open besides explorer and Sstray. The bloody thing has even done it to Word Perfect.
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(1) It's not just a Windows problem: every modern operating system has page faults, and every OS will have invalid page faults every now and then. The difference is in the quality of the OS code: for example, how well the VM manager manages memory, as well as how well the OS can recover from such problems.
(2) 100% of the time, an invalid page fault is significant. To a programmer, it means something is possibly being accessed out of order, especially s/he is working with multithreaded code or code that makes use of multiple processes + inter-process communication. To the user, it means that a program s/he is using is not working correctly.
(3) It is a failsafe, but it's hardly a pain in the ass. Would you rather have your system keep working with corrupt data, or let you know something weird occurred?
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