Determining amount of physical memory

[Mike Wescott]

In article <1940 at se-sd.sandiego.ncr.com> rns at se-sd.sandiego.NCR.COM (Rick Schubert(AEP)) writes:
> I'm trying to find out how much physical memory my system has.
> Should the following give me an accurate figure?

> 	dd if=/dev/mem of=/dev/null bs=1024

It might,  but it depends on the implementation of the /dev/mem driver
and on the contiguity of physical memory.

Try
	dd if=/dev/mem of=/dev/null bs=1024 conv=noerror 

It might show more memory.  Many NCR Towers have physical memory
configured in noncontiguous address ranges.

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	-Mike Wescott
	 mike.wescott at ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM