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HOWTO: Check My System RAM With KDE?

by Jon on March 14th, 2006

If you’ve just upgraded your system RAM (or are otherwise just a curious person) you probably want to ensure that your system is seeing and using the new RAM. There are three ways to check your system RAM that I’m aware of and those three ways will be the subject of the next three posts.

First off, we’ll use KDE’s ksysguard application. To launch Ksysguard, simply type ksysguard in a terminal window or rummage through your system menu to find it.

Ksysguard has two tabs and is jam packed with information. This figure shows my system load with Ksysguard. Note the middle text in the bottom status bar. In my case it says:

Memory: 444,252 KBused, 5,176 KB Free.

My system has 512MB of RAM, but 64MB of it is used to video RAM. Therefore these to numbers added together gives me something like 450MB + 64MB video RAM = (kind of) 512MB. Those numbers never really add up because a MB is 1025Kb and not 1,000.

I can therefore be sure that my system is recognizing and using all 512MB of my installed RAM.

Next up we’ll take a look at the command line tools free and some fancy things you can do with the cat command.

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