WHAT ARE PAGE FAULTS

3. What are page faults? Do you think a larger or smaller number of page faults indi-cates better system performance? Why?Each time data has to be retrieved from the page file on the hard disk for a process, the datahas been paged out of physical memory. This is known as a page fault. A smaller number ofpage faults indicates better system performance because it is faster to retrieve data from RAMthan from a paging file on the hard drive.