topic Info on Memory in Operating System - Linux

Info on Memory

esstee — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 06:46:32 GMT

how to find the RAM size in linux through SMBIOS. i tried with dmidecode it is diaplying the SIZE is not installed. Is there any way to find the size of the RAM.

-esstee-

Re: Info on Memory

Sung Oh — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:48:54 GMT

Hi Esstee,

Are you looking for linux command that can display RAM size under linux OS? if so, here are few command

# cat /proc/meminfo
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Regards,
Sung

Re: Info on Memory

Stuart Browne — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 18:44:14 GMT

Using 'free' or the content of '/proc/meminfo' is the way to get the memory available to the machine.

If you want more details on the memory modules that are installed though, set up 'lmsensors', and hope the 'eeprom' modules are usable.