Frank McCormick put forth on 10/13/2009 9:48 AM:
> On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:41:36 +1100
> Frank Charles Gallacher <fra...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> When I was a system administrator, there was a command to find out how
>> much real memory was on your system, logged in as root (making sure you
>> didn't confuse the input and output!):
>>
>> dd if=/dev/mem of=/dev/null bs=1024 conv=noerror
>>
>> It would chug away for a minute or two, then give you a number of
>> records in and out, this number was how many KB or RAM you had;
>> I tried this on debian, now all I get is a string of error messages...
>>
>> Is there a better way???
>
>
> Yup. free as in manual free
greer:/# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 192456 182004 10452 0 18620 67488
-/+ buffers/cache: 95896 96560
Swap: 1951888 428 1951460
greer:/#
greer:/#
greer:/#
greer:/# free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 187 175 12 0 18 65
-/+ buffers/cache: 91 96
Swap: 1906 0 1905
--
Stan
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