Physical memory present on a machine

[J.Reykdal]

dmidecode should show your memory banks (search for Memory Device)

J.Reykdal


Nilesh Bansal wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> We have a machine running RHEL3 AS.
> Linux manhattan.db.toronto.edu 2.4.21-47.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Jul 5
> 20:30:47 EDT 2006 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
> 
> I think that the machine has 8GB RAM, but since it is running 32-bit
> OS only 4GB is available. Is there a way I can find out if the machine
> has 8GB or 4GB ram present physically.
> 
> cat /proc/meminfo shows 4GB
>        total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
> Mem:  3748446208 3094016000 654430208        0 293117952 1939726336
> Swap: 4194881536 1651802112 2543079424
> MemTotal:      3660592 kB
> MemFree:        639092 kB
> MemShared:           0 kB
> Buffers:        286248 kB
> Cached:         520312 kB
> SwapCached:    1373952 kB
> Active:        2643408 kB
> ActiveAnon:    2072596 kB
> ActiveCache:    570812 kB
> Inact_dirty:    156316 kB
> Inact_laundry:   16244 kB
> Inact_clean:     62824 kB
> Inact_target:   575756 kB
> HighTotal:     2817472 kB
> HighFree:       625700 kB
> LowTotal:       843120 kB
> LowFree:         13392 kB
> SwapTotal:     4096564 kB
> SwapFree:      2483476 kB
> CommitLimit:   5926860 kB
> Committed_AS:  2819216 kB
> HugePages_Total:     0
> HugePages_Free:      0
> Hugepagesize:     4096 kB
> 
> 
> thanks
> Nilesh
> 
>