[wellylug] Memory

Grant McLean grant at mclean.net.nz
Fri Mar 16 15:24:36 NZDT 2007


On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 15:19 +1300, Rob Giltrap wrote:
> Is there any Linux command that will tell me the characteristics of a 
> machines memory?
> 
> Like...
> 
> DIMM 1 = 512MB
> DIMM 2 = 512MB
> DIMM 3 = 256MB
> 
> Total 1280MB running at 400MHZ
> 
> Or is this masked by the bios and the system just sees one big chunk of 
> memory?

On my machine, the 'lshw' command does purport to give that information
although I haven't verified its accuracy.

Cheers
Grant




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