From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 8 3:58:48 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E44A637B405 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 03:58:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from pcwin002.win.tue.nl (pcwin002.win.tue.nl [131.155.71.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C437843F08 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 03:58:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stijn@pcwin002.win.tue.nl) Received: from pcwin002.win.tue.nl (orb_rules@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pcwin002.win.tue.nl (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h08Bwp8k000625; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 12:58:51 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from stijn@pcwin002.win.tue.nl) Received: (from stijn@localhost) by pcwin002.win.tue.nl (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h08Bwpeq000624; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 12:58:51 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 12:58:51 +0100 From: Stijn Hoop To: Aaron Burke Cc: FreeBSD-Questions , "Pranav A. Desai" Subject: Re: How to get detailed information on the RAM in the system? Message-ID: <20030108115851.GD209@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="kfjH4zxOES6UT95V" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Bright-Idea: Let's abolish HTML mail! Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --kfjH4zxOES6UT95V Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 03:55:05AM -0800, Aaron Burke wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Pranav A. Desai > > Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 11:47 AM > > To: FreeBSD Questions > > Subject: How to get detailed information on the RAM in the system? >=20 > It shows you if you type dmesg. Its just below the processor info. > CPU: Pentium/P55C (233.86-MHz 586-class CPU) > Origin =3D "GenuineIntel" Id =3D 0x543 Stepping =3D 3 > Features=3D0x8001bf > real memory =3D 67108864 (65536K bytes) Although useful info, that's not what he asked, see below: > > Is there a way to find out how many memory modules are in a > > machine e.g. whether it is 2*1G=3D2G or 4*512M=3D2G of RAM. I dont have > > physical access to the machine. To my knowledge that's not possible, because the hardware sees all available RAM as one giant pool. At least on all desktop-class PCs I've seen (there m= ay be server-type motherboards that can do this, but I don't know about any standard to query this). --Stijn --=20 "An adult is a child who has more ethics and morals, that's all." -- Shigeru Miyamoto --kfjH4zxOES6UT95V Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+HBJ7Y3r/tLQmfWcRAnJeAJ4scZs3ZFBEW2L4q0guc9bISUu1hACdFzRf ugW5wvph2KhdNX3gMGNMiSk= =OG9d -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --kfjH4zxOES6UT95V-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message