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Old 06-03-2007, 09:16 AM   #1
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most, er, universal way to get system memory total and usage


Howdy all.

I'm looking for a fairly basic and universal way to show the total ram and used ram. In other words, if I could know of only one way to get this information from any distro, what would be my best bet?

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Old 06-03-2007, 09:30 AM   #2
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