On Sun, 1 May 2005 09:41:15 -0700 Rodney Mishima wrote: | >Robby Russell wrote: | >>I have a client who is running a Linux server and wants to upgrade his | >>RAM but doesn't want to take it down to check the RAM sticks until he | >>has some more RAM to add into it. I am curious if there is a command | >>that will tell us what type of RAM is in the box from the shell. | >> | >>Thanks, | >> | >>Robby | > | > | >Good question.. | > | >Someone needs to write a tool for this. They will be a hero. In that | >other OS there exists tools that can tell you everything about | >everything on your motherboard. | > | >Anyhoo .. you probably want to match latencies/timing/etc if the box | >is that important. Sometimes that info is on the sticker - sometimes | >not :) | > | >-Charlie | >_______________________________________________ | | True. The Belarc Advisor works on the OS we all hate. | | Mac OS X has its built-in Apple System Profiler that reports the | number of RAM slots both occupied and empty. For the occupied ones, | it reports what capacity module is present.
of course that's a lot easier on a proprietary, controlled set of hardware. | Someone already mentioned using crucial.com or ramjet.com to get info | about the type of RAM and how many slots exist for a given | manufacturer/motherboard. --- ~Randy _______________________________________________ PDXLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug IRC: irc.freenode.net #pdxlug
