[olug] Identifying RAM

[Phil Brutsche]

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.

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Phil Brutsche
phil at brutsche.us