True - but we intend to collect the inventory as root anyway. :-) On Sep 23, 2014, at 1:50 PM, Christopher Samuel <sam...@unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> On 24/09/14 00:57, Ralph Castain wrote: > >> Memory info is available from lshw, though they are a GPL code: > > FWIW on this laptop (Intel Haswell) lshw only report DIMM info when run > as root, which I suspect would point them to accessing DMI information > via /dev/mem. > > Using strace supports this: > > 3405 open("/dev/mem", O_RDONLY) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) > > FWIW dmidecode does the same. > > samuel@haswell:~$ dmidecode > # dmidecode 2.12 > /dev/mem: Permission denied > > All the best, > Chris > -- > Christopher Samuel Senior Systems Administrator > VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative > Email: sam...@unimelb.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545 > http://www.vlsci.org.au/ http://twitter.com/vlsci > > _______________________________________________ > hwloc-devel mailing list > hwloc-de...@open-mpi.org > Subscription: http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/hwloc-devel > Link to this post: > http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/hwloc-devel/2014/09/4238.php