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The hdparm stands for Hard Disk Parameter. It's a Linux command line utility used for handling hard disk devices. You can also use hdparm command to set parameters such as power management, sleep mode, drive caches, Direct Memory Access settings, etc. For instance, in order to display information of the hard disk, run the following command.
Swapinfo -m or top (12th line) Memory: 826688K (466512K) real, 3096440K (2098204K) virtual, 176636K free Page# 1/17 or vmstat 5 55 (5th collumn). Jan 27, 2013 Finding RAM size details in Linux for a System admin is very easy task. We can use free command to check how much RAM is present in our system. But when you want to find how many RAM/Memory sa lots are present in your system is bit tricky one. One way to do open your system and check what sa lots are there and how much RAM. How to Check Memory Usage in Linux based Server; Free Up Memory Automatically by Unloading DLLs in How To Check Number Of Physical Memory RAM Slots In Tweak Windows Virtual Memory PageFile.sys (Change or Optimize SQL Server 2000 / 2005 / 2008 in Large RAM Windows Vista 32-bit and 64-bit (x86 and x64).
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How to identify a device > RAM
How to identify the installed Memory / RAM.
Many people simply use free, which is available on every Debian system, to list the quantity of RAM installed (detected). Gnome users can install and use the hardinfo. KDE user can use kinfocenter.
free
free is the Unix command to know about free/used/available memory on your system:
under Gnome: hardinfo
Gnomes's System Information (Hardinfo in Menu Applications/System Tools, from package:hardinfo) has an information page on the RAM installed.
under KDE: KInfocenter
KDE's KInfoCenter (in K Menu / System / KInfoCenter Info Center, from package:kcontrol) has an information page on the RAM installed.
dmidecode
dmidecode can be used to query the motherboards DMI zone about RAM, Ram Slot(s) and Memory Controller:
dmidecode -t memory is equivalent to running the 4 commands below (i.e dmidecode -t 5 -t 6 -t 16 -t 17)
Memory Device
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Memory Controller Information
Memory Module Information
lshw
You can also check information about RAM (like speed, type, etc) using lshw (from package lshw).
References
manpages: free(1), dmidecode(8)