find out details of RAM installed

[fraxinus]

On a computer with PCLinuxOS installed, where can I go to find out more information about the system RAM? Surely there's a way of doing this without taking the side off the case and looking at the modules - but searching around in the PCLOS Control Centre I cannot find it, despite looking under the Hardware and System tabs.

Thanks in anticipation to anyone who can help - and sorry if I am missing something obvious here. The computer in question is running 2009.2, with KDE 3.5.10 fully updated from the frozen repo.

[MBantz]

Hi Fraxinus,

from the commandline you can use: free -m

See other useful commands here: http://www.pixelbeat.org/cmdline.html

Hope you find plenty ram :-)

cheers,
MBantz

[fraxinus]

Hi Fraxinus,

from the commandline you can use: free -m

See other useful commands here: http://www.pixelbeat.org/cmdline.html

Hope you find plenty ram :-)

Thanks - this is helpful. However, as well as finding out the amount of available RAM I am also keen to know what kind it is (DDR or DDR2 ...). I am dealing here with an unfamiliar machine and it is clear that it is going to need some more! I guess I can always open it up if needs be.

[MBantz]

Hi again,

try this:

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/check-ram-speed-linux/

just skip the sudo part and just su to root instead,

cheers,
MBantz