Hi
"A hard fault (also known as a page fault) occurs when the page of the referenced address is no longer in physical memory and has been swapped out or is available from a backing file on disk. It is not an error. However, a high number of hard faults may explain the slow response time of an application if it must continually read data back from disk rather than from physical memory."
Reference: Windows Vista Performance and Reliability Monitoring Step-by-Step Guide:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc722173.aspx
As you can see from the description, these are not errors.
If this was a 'Program' that you are using, and the program was running slower than normal, you might see a number like 2500 Hard Faults/Min, this could indicate that there is not enough available memory (RAM) for the program to run properly.
Since the SearchProtocolHost.exe and the SearchIndexer.exe are both low priority, background processes, I would not be worried about the number of hard faults you are seeing.
Hope this helps.
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Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience
