memory check

[Robert Brockway]

On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Donald &/or Mila Trombley wrote:

> What is the command in Linux for the total memory which is in a
> computer? In the days before Winblows, (I no longer have Winblows on my
> hard disk, nor do I have a backup disk, else I would have used  it for
> checking) I.E. when DOS ruined the world, it used to be either chkdsk,
> or mem......

I'm surprised no one mentioned 'free'.  This is a common command to check 
various high level details of memory (amount in running system, amountin 
cache, etc).

If you want to know details about the memory installed on the motherboard 
(and lots of other details of the system) checkout lshw.  Yes it is in 
Ubuntu/Debian.

Cheers,

Rob

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