Check my ammount of RAM

linuxxunil · 10-27-2004, 02:42 PM

Hi

I was trying to see how much RAM does my box has, but I haven't figured out yet.
Can anyone suggest me a good reading about this kind of stuff ?

Thanks

Berto · 10-27-2004, 03:05 PM

In a console, type mem and press the TAB key twice, I think there's a memstat command in there somewhere. Also, if you watch your bootup carefully, then there's most likely a memory test done by your BIOS right at the beginning. And if you have Gnome installed, then you can run gnome-system-monitor and it will tell you how much you have as well. Also, the program gkrellm will tell you, it's pretty easy to install and get running if you don't already have it.

Dead Parrot · 10-27-2004, 03:09 PM

"top" command in xterm shows you how much RAM you've got and how much of it is in use.

david_ross · 10-27-2004, 03:20 PM

I usually use top as well but "free" is also good - especially if you want to parse the output in a script,

linuxxunil · 10-27-2004, 04:48 PM

Thanks

Top and Free worked very well.

BTW has any of you tuned your hard drive, so it can write faster and read faster ?

david_ross · 10-27-2004, 04:55 PM

I have on a few machines but come to think of it I've not done it on this laptop - something else to do before the night is out.

There is a pretty good source of information here:
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/...29/hdparm.html

darthtux · 10-27-2004, 11:07 PM

cat /proc/meminfo

linuxxunil · 11-03-2004, 09:40 AM

Thanks !!

cat /proc/meminfo worked very well too.

I've now a fster hard drive.