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- From: "Chris Martin" <wk04331@psilink.com>
- Subject: Re: RAM size
- In-Reply-To: <1992Nov19.140503.13218@tinman.mke.ab.com>
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- Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 01:52:21 GMT
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- >DATE: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 14:05:03 GMT
- >FROM: Thad Phetteplace x4461 <tdphette@mke.ab.com>
- >
- >menjan@cs.umb.edu (Men-Jan Lin) writes:
- >:
- >: How can I know the RAM size of my Sun and HP workstation ?
- >: (not reboot)
- >: Thanks.
- >:
- >: -Jane
- >
- >On a Sun you can run the dmesg command and print the messages from the
- >last boot. The RAM size should be in there. Pipe it to 'grep mem' to
- >filter out other messages...
- >
- >dmesg | grep mem
- >
- >That should do it. I don't know if you can do the same on an HP.
-
-
- There is a script (called MEMSIZE?? or something like that) that is
- shipped with the compress distribution which does a good job of
- determining physical memory on a variety of machines. (dmesg only works
- if the machine has been rebooted "recently".).
-
- --Chris
- chris@amd.com
-