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Date:      Sun, 2 Feb 2003 18:35:44 -0800
From:      Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org>
To:        Dragoncrest <dragoncrest@voyager.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, David Larkin <David.Larkin@djl.co.uk>
Subject:   Re: Determining Ram
Message-ID:  <31BB2869-3720-11D7-911E-000393681B06@lafn.org>
In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20030202213837.009be7b0@pop.voyager.net>

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On Sunday, Feb 2, 2003, at 18:39 US/Pacific, Dragoncrest wrote:

>         Cool.  That worked.  A little more info than I wanted to sort 
> through, but now that I know about that, I now have more information 
> to pick through later on should I need any of that information that 
> Dmesg listed.
> At 01:02 AM 2/3/03 +0000, David Larkin wrote:
>> Dragoncrest wrote:
>>
>> >         I've got a rather odd question, but I'm looking for the 
>> easiest way to
>> > determin how much ram I have on a given system without rebooting 
>> it.  I'm
>> > sure that there is some kind of console command that tells me that 
>> info,
>> > but I have no idea where to begin looking to find out.  Does anybody
>> > know?  Thanks.
>> >
>> use the command dmesg

If your machine has been running too long the boot info will no longer 
be available through dmesg.  However, it is retained in 
/var/run/dmesg.boot.  That will always show the boot messages from the 
previous boot.


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