Checking RAM type and information in software

Ian Chapman packages at amiga-hardware.com
Fri Mar 7 22:58:55 UTC 2008


Konstantin Svist wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Is it possible to check the type of RAM without opening up the computer?
> There are several windows programs that are able to determine a lot of 
> memory information (sisoft sandra, cpu-z, etc...), but I couldn't find a 
> linux alternative. Does such a beast exist?

Yes, there's a few ways of checking, try dmidecode. Also lm_sensors has 
some support for telling you about your memory through the eeprom 
modules if I remember right.

-- 
Ian Chapman.




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