How do you determine the amount of system memory?

[Shawn O'Shea]

On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com>wrote:

> On Aug 3, 2008, at 13:50, Ben Scott wrote:
>
> >   Situation seems to be getting murkier by the minute.  :)
>
> The difference in Memtotal?  This can at least be affected by shared
> RAM, etc.
>
> I found a few (older) machines that needed -t 6 and some (newer)
> servers that needed -t 17.
>

Just an additional note, as Ben also saw, CentOS 4.x (I've verified this
with boxes in my lab as well) doesn't support a "-t" option. Seems this was
a new addition to dmidecode in a later version (as well as a manpage :)

-Shawn
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