Physical memory present on a machine

[Nilesh Bansal]

Looking at the dmicode output it seems that we have 8GB memory. May be
I am reading the output wrong (it is attached). How much memory is
supported by 32-bit RHEL3 smp kernel btw?

thanks
Nilesh

On 4/27/07, Herta Van den Eynde <herta.vandeneynde at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Nilesh,
>
> The Red Hat AS3 smp kernel which you are running is quite capable of
> seeing 8 GB memory if it's there.  Looks to me you only have 4.
>
> If dmidecode looks too intimidating, try "dmidecode -t memory | grep
> Size" and add up the sizes.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Herta
>
> On 27/04/07, J.Reykdal <redhat at reykdal.is> wrote:
> > dmidecode should show your memory banks (search for Memory Device)
> >
> > J.Reykdal
> >
> >
> > Nilesh Bansal wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > We have a machine running RHEL3 AS.
> > > Linux manhattan.db.toronto.edu 2.4.21-47.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Jul 5
> > > 20:30:47 EDT 2006 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
> > >
> > > I think that the machine has 8GB RAM, but since it is running 32-bit
> > > OS only 4GB is available. Is there a way I can find out if the machine
> > > has 8GB or 4GB ram present physically.
> > >
> > > cat /proc/meminfo shows 4GB
> > >        total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
> > > Mem:  3748446208 3094016000 654430208        0 293117952 1939726336
> > > Swap: 4194881536 1651802112 2543079424
> > > MemTotal:      3660592 kB
> > > MemFree:        639092 kB
> > > MemShared:           0 kB
> > > Buffers:        286248 kB
> > > Cached:         520312 kB
> > > SwapCached:    1373952 kB
> > > Active:        2643408 kB
> > > ActiveAnon:    2072596 kB
> > > ActiveCache:    570812 kB
> > > Inact_dirty:    156316 kB
> > > Inact_laundry:   16244 kB
> > > Inact_clean:     62824 kB
> > > Inact_target:   575756 kB
> > > HighTotal:     2817472 kB
> > > HighFree:       625700 kB
> > > LowTotal:       843120 kB
> > > LowFree:         13392 kB
> > > SwapTotal:     4096564 kB
> > > SwapFree:      2483476 kB
> > > CommitLimit:   5926860 kB
> > > Committed_AS:  2819216 kB
> > > HugePages_Total:     0
> > > HugePages_Free:      0
> > > Hugepagesize:     4096 kB
> > >
> > >
> > > thanks
> > > Nilesh
>
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Nilesh Bansal.
http://queens.db.toronto.edu/~nilesh/
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