Re: How to find out how much memory your system using "dd" command...
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:41:36 +1100
Frank Charles Gallacher <franxg@gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> When I was a system administrator, there was a command to find out how
> much real memory was on your system, logged in as root (making sure you
> didn't confuse the input and output!):
>
> dd if=/dev/mem of=/dev/null bs=1024 conv=noerror
>
> It would chug away for a minute or two, then give you a number of
> records in and out, this number was how many KB or RAM you had;
> I tried this on debian, now all I get is a string of error messages...
>
> Is there a better way???
Yup. free as in manual free
--
Frank
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