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From: rns@se-sd.sandiego.ncr.com (Rick Schubert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Determining amount of physical memory
Message-ID: <1940@se-sd.sandiego.ncr.com>
Date: 25 May 89 14:34:02 GMT
Reply-To: rns@se-sd.sandiego.NCR.COM (Rick Schubert(AEP))
Organization: NCR Corp. Systems Engineering, San Diego
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I'm trying to find out how much physical memory my system has.
Should the following give me an accurate figure?

	dd if=/dev/mem of=/dev/null bs=1024

This produces the output:
	dd read error: No such device or address
	1024+0 blocks in
	1024+0 blocks out

I interpret this to mean that I have 1MB (1024KB) of physical memory.
Is this correct?

-- Rick Schubert (rns@se-sd.sandiego.NCR.COM)