determining size of physical memory

[Jeffrey P. Bakke]

In article <1990Dec27.202715.27688 at Neon.Stanford.EDU>, hitt at Neon.Stanford.EDU (Daniel Hitt) writes:
> Is there a standard UNIX program or system call that determines
> the size of the physical memory of the machine on which it is
> running?
> 
> I'd like to be able to do this on Ultrix, SunOS, and the NeXT OS,
> and possibly HP-UX.

Well, I'm not positive that this is the best way or the that it will work
correctly under all instances but if you have read access to the /dev/mem
(or /dev/kmem) you might just try
'wc -c < /dev/mem' using the word count program to count the number of
bytes.  I've found on most systems that it will return the correct physical
memory size (not swap space though).  


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