How do you determine the amount of system memory?

[Ben Scott]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net> wrote:
> Recent Linux kernels have had a minor bug in that the amount of memory
> reported in /proc/meminfo is incorrect.

  Got details?

  Depending on how the bug manifests, it might be enough to compare
with the output of free(1).  If they disagree significantly, bug
exists.  If the bug effects more than /proc/meminfo, that won't work,
of course.

-- Ben