[olug] Identifying RAM

[Don Kauffman]

Phil,

Care to say more about lmsensors? Must not be a part of every linux
system 'cause I can't find it on Suse 9.1. When I search with Yast2
there's no package listed with it. Must be a part of some other systems.

Don K.
On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 16:38, Phil Brutsche wrote:
> djalexander at cox.net wrote:
> 
> > Is there a way to find out how many DIMMs there are in a machine and 
> > what size each one is?  The way I usually get RAM info (top or 
> > /proc/meminfo) doesn't provide this.  I thought dmesg would show this, 
> > but the log is full of newer messages, pushing the boot messages out.  
> > Ideally there would be a utility that one could run that would profile 
> > all the hardware on the machine and provide a summary.  Today I am just 
> > interested in finding out how many DIMM slots I have open without 
> > opening up the box and looking.
> > 
> 
> lmsensors can provide you with at least part of this information.