How to find out how much memory your system using dd command...

2009-10-13 Thread Frank Charles Gallacher
Greetings, When I was a system administrator, there was a command to find out how much real memory was on your system, logged in as root (making sure you didn't confuse the input and output!): dd if=/dev/mem of=/dev/null bs=1024 conv=noerror It would chug away for a minute or two, then give you

Re: How to find out how much memory your system using dd command...

2009-10-13 Thread Frank McCormick
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:41:36 +1100 Frank Charles Gallacher fra...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, When I was a system administrator, there was a command to find out how much real memory was on your system, logged in as root (making sure you didn't confuse the input and output!): dd

How to find out how much memory your system using dd command...

2009-10-13 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Frank McCormick put forth on 10/13/2009 9:48 AM: On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:41:36 +1100 Frank Charles Gallacher fra...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, When I was a system administrator, there was a command to find out how much real memory was on your system, logged in as root (making sure you

Re: How to find out how much memory your system using dd command...

2009-10-13 Thread Jari Fredriksson
13.10.2009 17:41, Frank Charles Gallacher kirjoitti: Greetings, When I was a system administrator, there was a command to find out how much real memory was on your system, logged in as root (making sure you didn't confuse the input and output!): dd if=/dev/mem of=/dev/null bs=1024

Re: How to find out how much memory your system using dd command...

2009-10-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 01:41:36AM +1100, Frank Charles Gallacher wrote: Greetings, When I was a system administrator, there was a command to find out how much real memory was on your system, logged in as root (making sure you didn't confuse the input and output!): dd if=/dev/mem

Re: How to find out how much memory your system using dd command...

2009-10-13 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Ter, 13 Out 2009, Frank Charles Gallacher wrote: When I was a system administrator, there was a command to find out how much real memory was on your system, logged in as root (making sure you didn't confuse the input and output!): dd if=/dev/mem of=/dev/null bs=1024 conv=noerror It would