Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jose A Medina wrote:
> Guess this question is not specific to SuSe but that is our flavor of Linux in 
> house, so here goes.
>
> We are currently running SLES9 and we have one remote server that we will be 
> upgrading the RAM on. The problem is we have no way of knowing what the 
> current type/config of the system ram is.
>
> Is there a tool we can use to determine. The number of RAMM slots filled and 
> what types of RAM fill these slots.. 
>
> I'm assume there is a simple tool for this but I have never needed to use one 
> prior to now.
>
> Thanks
> JAM

There are a couple of utils that can be found via google, easily built 
and installed .....
dmidecode (includes biosdecode)
Handle 0x000A
        DMI type 6, 12 bytes.
        Memory Module Information
                Socket Designation: DIMM1
                Bank Connections: 3 2
                Current Speed: Unknown
                Type: Unknown
                Installed Size: Not Installed
                Enabled Size: Not Installed
                Error Status: OK
Handle 0x000B
        DMI type 6, 12 bytes.
        Memory Module Information
                Socket Designation: DIMM2
                Bank Connections: 5 4
                Current Speed: Unknown
                Type: DIMM SDRAM
                Installed Size: 512 MB (Double-bank Connection)
                Enabled Size: 512 MB (Double-bank Connection)
                Error Status: OK
Handle 0x000C
        DMI type 6, 12 bytes.
        Memory Module Information
                Socket Designation: DIMM3
                Bank Connections: 7 6
                Current Speed: Unknown
                Type: Unknown
                Installed Size: Not Installed
                Enabled Size: Not Install

The other is a bash script (prtdiag) with the same name as the Solaris 
util, depends on pciutils, you may have to adjust the path to "lspci", 
the script looks in /sbin, mine is in /usr/sbin ---

eeprom-i2c-0-52
Adapter: SMBus Via Pro adapter at 0400
Memory type:            DDR SDRAM DIMM
Memory size (MB):       512

eeprom-i2c-0-50
Adapter: SMBus Via Pro adapter at 0400
Memory type:            DDR SDRAM DIMM
Memory size (MB):       512

Regards
Sid.
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