[olug] Identifying RAM

[Sean Kelly]

On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 03:52:22PM -0600, 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.
> 
> Thanks for any and all advice,

One tool I use for this is called dmidecode. It is in FreeBSD's Ports
collection in /usr/ports/sysutils/dmidecode/

You can get it from http://www.nongnu.org/dmidecode/

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