A Nifty Way To Access Linux Memory/RAM Information

[Tolkem]

Hi everyone! Hope you're all having a nice life!
I just bumped into this and found it quite interesting, so I thought I'd share here:
Extract:

Making use of dmidecode is the go-to way of being able to read various DIMM memory information on Linux systems like the model number, speed, and other attributes. But sadly using dmidecode is restricted to root due to needing to access /dev/mem. But it turns out there is another less reported way to receive much the same information.

A Nifty Way To Access Linux Memory/RAM Information - Phoronix

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[KGIII]

It's indeed handy. I've got a couple of articles about dmidecode.

You can do quite a bit with it!

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