Displaying the total RAM on the UNIX server Oracle Tips by Burleson Consulting

Displaying the total RAM on the UNIX server

The following commands can be used to see how much RAM memory exists on a server, but they do not show how much RAM is in-use. We will be covering those commands in a later section.

In Table 2-3 we see that each dialect of UNIX has very different commands for displaying the amount of total RAM on the UNIX server.

Dialect of UNIX

RAM memory display command:

DEC-UNIX
uerf -r 300 | grep -i mem
Solaris
prtconf|grep -i mem
AIX
lsdev -C|grep mem
Linux
free
HP/UX
swapinfo -tm

The above is an excerpt from the "Oracle9i UNIX Administration Handbook" by Oracle press, authored by Donald K. Burleson.

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