Comments on: How To Plan For Memory Expansion On a Linux Host

By: Jared

Jared — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:05:57 +0000

Very useful stuff – any way to differentiate between SDRAM, DDR, DDR2, DDR3?

By: Krzysztof Wilczynski

Krzysztof Wilczynski — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:45:49 +0000

Dear Guille,

You should use either -t or –type, but never -type with single dash (that is indeed incorrect). You can see dmidecode’s help screen by executing it with –help as an argument (alternatively, you can read the manual page: man dmidecode). If you are unsure about what to do then simply execute dmidecode without any arguments at all.

Kindest regards,
Krzysztof

By: Guille

Guille — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:59:41 +0000

Hello ev1;

great articule and great command, but in several of my server im receiving on the output ie:

[root@server1 ~]# dmidecode –type 17
–type: No such file or directory

[root@server1 ~]# dmidecode –type 11
–type: No such file or directory

neither with;

[root@server1 ~]# dmidecode processor
processor: No such file or directory

HOw can i fix it ?, i was googling but nothing
good.

Thanks!.

By: devidas

devidas — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:34:40 +0000

i was planning to expand my ram memory.. had been thinking to buy new ram and thanks for the article it really helped in getting to know the stuff inside.

By: moko

moko — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:20:50 +0000

Cool… I was googling the web yesterday for this info and couldn’t find it! and voila.. all written! thanks :-)