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 ch

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 of

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 conv=noerro

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 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

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 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

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