From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 2 18:35:51 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 F16D037B401 for ; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 18:35:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from zoon.lafn.org (zoon.lafn.org [206.117.18.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8116C43F3F for ; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 18:35:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Received: from lafn.org (host-66-81-179-107.rev.o1.com [66.81.179.107]) by zoon.lafn.org (8.12.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id h132Zjqq091954; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 18:35:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 18:35:44 -0800 Subject: Re: Determining Ram Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, David Larkin To: Dragoncrest From: Doug Hardie In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20030202213837.009be7b0@pop.voyager.net> Message-Id: <31BB2869-3720-11D7-911E-000393681B06@lafn.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) 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 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message