Re: How do you determine the amount of system memory?

2008-07-30 Thread Dave Johnson
Paul Lussier writes: Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 7/29/08, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are you talking about a real bug, or the fact that meminfo only reports non kernel memory? A real bug. A bug in that

Re: How do you determine the amount of system memory?

2008-07-30 Thread Thomas Charron
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 8:10 AM, Dave Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Lussier writes: Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A bug in that /proc/meminfo doesn't report the amount of physical memory uder MemTotal? Yes, and that possibly, over time, the amount of memory in

Re: How do you determine the amount of system memory?

2008-07-30 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jul 30, 2008, at 10:03, Thomas Charron wrote: MemTotal can change. MemTotal doesn't show memory utilized by the kernel binaries themselves in memory, however there are situations where modules can leak memory which also removes from MemTotal. I don't recall the specifics of this

Re: How do you determine the amount of system memory?

2008-07-30 Thread Shawn O'Shea
As Steve mentioned, dmidecode provides information on physical memory. Here's a quickie to dump memory sizes: sudo dmidecode -t 6 | grep Installed | grep -v Not | cut -f 2 -d : | cut -f 2,3 -d ' ' I was curious and gave this a run on my Dell Precision desktop here at work. -t 6 (type 6:

Re: How do you determine the amount of system memory?

2008-07-30 Thread Paul Lussier
Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As Steve mentioned, dmidecode provides information on physical memory. Here's a quickie to dump memory sizes: sudo dmidecode -t 6 | grep Installed | grep -v Not | cut -f 2 -d : | cut -f 2,3 -d ' ' Interestingly, I have to use -t 17, not 6...

Re: How do you determine the amount of system memory?

2008-07-30 Thread Thomas Charron
On 7/30/08, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 30, 2008, at 10:03, Thomas Charron wrote: MemTotal can change. MemTotal doesn't show memory utilized by the kernel binaries themselves in memory, however there are situations where modules can leak memory which also removes from

Re: laptop fails to hear replies

2008-07-30 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Lloyd Kvam writes: That timing is right on. However, it needs to be a problem triggered by the laptop. I hit this problem on the road. How would the laptop force the port to be disabled? Were you running any programs on your laptop that could have emitted some strange network traffic?

Re: laptop fails to hear replies

2008-07-30 Thread Lloyd Kvam
On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 14:37 -0400, Kevin D. Clark wrote: Lloyd Kvam writes: That timing is right on. However, it needs to be a problem triggered by the laptop. I hit this problem on the road. How would the laptop force the port to be disabled? Were you running any programs on your

python question

2008-07-30 Thread Jeff Macdonald
it has been ages since I've played with python. Is there an equivalent way to do this perl command in python with a 3rd party module? $ perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/home/jeff/projects/program/lib All is can find is: $ python setup.py install -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA