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How much memory is in this machine? It would seem that answering this question ought to be easy; it is – but every system has the answer in a different place. Most put an answer of some sort into kernel messages reported by dmesg (AIX apparently does not). Most systems have a program for system inventory which reports a variety of things, including memory. Rather than go into great detail about each one, we’ll just put these out there for all of you to reference. Each environment has multiple commands that give available memory; each command is listed below. Without further ado, here are a few answers to this burning question:

Solaris dmesg | grep mem prtdiag | grep Memory prtconf -v | grep Memory AIX bootinfo -r lsattr -E1 sys0 -a realmem getconf REAL_MEMORY HPUX dmesg | grep Physical /opt/ignite/bin/print_manifest | grep Memory machinfo | grep Memory Linux dmesg | grep Memory grep -i memtotal /proc/meminfo free OpenVMS show mem /page FreeBSD dmesg | grep memory grep memory /var/run/dmesg.boot sysctl -a | grep mem