dmesg just gets you the most recent kernel messages.  To get your bootup
kernel messages on RHAT, look at /var/log/dmesg.  On bootup RHAT does

dmesg >/var/log/dmesg

However, a better view of memory is available at

/proc/meminfo

Jon

On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Jianping Zhu wrote:

> I want to use dmesg to check how much memory is on my redhat 7.3  machine.
> i user
> dmesg | more
> but get
>
> cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!
> cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!
> cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!
> ---
> ---
> cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!
> cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!
>
> what is wrong with it?
> Thanks
> --------------------------------
> Jianping Zhu
> Department of Computer Science
> Univerity of Georgia
> Athens, GA 30602
> Tel 706 5423900
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