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 if=/dev/mem of=/dev/null bs=1024 conv=noerror > > It would chug away for a minute or two, then give you a number of > records in and out, this number was how many KB or RAM you had; > I tried this on debian, now all I get is a string of error messages... > > Is there a better way??? Yup. free as in manual free -- Frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
