how much physical ram?

Brent Browning brentb at sun.com
Wed Jan 31 11:16:36 AEST 1990


In article <4337 at brazos.Rice.edu> you write:
>How does one find out how much physical memory (i.e., RAM) is available on
>your workstation.  pstat  seems to only indicate swap.  Someone told me
>that the "top" program will; if this is true, does anyone know where I can
>get the sources to top?

You have probably have quite a few responses by now.  Here's how the way I
always find out:

% grep "mem =" /usr/adm/messages*
/usr/adm/messages.1:Jan 16 17:48:16 montagne vmunix: mem = 16384K (0x1000000)
/usr/adm/messages.1:Jan 16 17:48:16 montagne vmunix: avail mem = 15319040

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