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Find Out Maximum RAM with dmidecode

To find out what is the maximum system can support type the following command: root@websvr:~# dmidecode -t 16 output # dmidecode 2.11 SMBIOS 2.4 present. Handle 0x0082, DMI type 16, 15 bytes Physical Memory Array Location: System Board Or Motherboard Use: System Memory Error Correction Type: None Maximum Capacity: 1 TB Error Information Handle: Not […]

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Use lspci tells me my VGA Memory Usage

“Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They’re no good at all.” – Kurt Cobain Sitting here playing around with some cli I wanted to know how much memory my VGA card was using so to find out I did the […]

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My Raspberry Pi needs a Swap

About Swap: Linux divides its physical RAM (random access memory) into chucks of memory called pages. Swapping is the process whereby a page of memory is copied to the preconfigured space on the hard disk, called swap space, to free up that page of memory. The combined sizes of the physical memory and the swap space […]

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Cannot allocate memory Issue

There has been a few times I have seen this message. Each time it had to do with my moving files in and out of a mounted network share from my Linux box. Tonight while moving files around and doing some scanning. I found myself with the error above. After rebooting my Windows 7 host […]

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Task Manager Info

If you have taken a look at Windows Task Manager, and wondered what does all this mean. This brief guide should help you understand what these values represent. The performance information is broken down into four categories: CPU, Physical Memory, Kernel Memory, and System CPU: CPU (Central Processing Unit) usage represents the percentage of CPU capacity currently being used by […]

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swapoff, swapon…

pre.cjk { font-family: “DejaVu Sans”,monospace; }p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } I have been playing a bit with running programs even virtual machines in memory. What I have noticed is that when all physical RAM is used, my Linux OS (Ubuntu) will move excess memory into SWAP. This is normal, but…. I am attempting to keep […]