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. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks