On Mon, 12 Jun 2023, Mick Ab wrote:
I have seen the dmidecode command being used, but the reliability of the
information returned is not reliable.
Is there any command that will reliably give the required RAM information ?
According to man inxi the command "inxi -mxx" tries to improve on dmidecode.
Quoting from man inxi : Because dmidecode data is extremely unreliable, inxi
will try to make best guesses. If you see (check) after the capacity number,
you should check it with the specifications. (est) is slightly more reliable,
but you should still check the real specifications before buying RAM.
Unfortunately there is nothing inxi can do to get truly reliable data about the
system RAM; maybe one day the kernel devs will put this data into /sys, and
make it real data, taken from the actual system, not dmi data. For most people,
the data will be right, but a significant percentage of users will have either a
wrong max module size, if present, or max capacity.
Roger
