How do you determine the amount of system memory?

[Bill McGonigle]

On Jul 30, 2008, at 10:03, Thomas Charron wrote:

>   MemTotal can change.  MemTotal doesn't show memory utilized by the
> kernel binaries themselves in memory, however there are situations
> where modules can leak memory which also removes from MemTotal.  I
> don't recall the specifics of this happening, but I do know what Paul
> is talking about now.


Well, that's only a bug if you define MemTotal as the physical memory  
present in a machine.  If you view it as total memory available to  
the kernel, it's performing correctly, right?

As Steve mentioned, dmidecode provides information on physical  
memory.  Here's a quickie to dump memory sizes:

   sudo dmidecode -t 6 | grep Installed | grep -v Not | cut -f 2 -d :  
| cut -f 2,3 -d ' '

Sending that output into Frink should be quite easy, given an extra  
10 minutes of work.

-Bill

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