[nylug-talk] Any way to tell memory speed from command line?

[David Rosenstrauch]

alex at pilosoft.com wrote:
>> Thanks much, but ....
>>
>> Hmmm .... cool utility, but it didn't seem to tell me the info I was
>> looking for.  It reported the FSB speed (266MHz), but not the memory
>> chip speed.
> no. it does not report just FSB speed, it reports the speed at which that 
> specific chip is running. 266mhz means the *frequency* is 266mhz. which 
> means, since it is ddr, it is doing '2100 megabytes per second'.
> 
> if you want to know what the chip is physically capable of (on-chip info),
> run decode-dimms.pl (part of lmsensors)
> 
> -alex


Well, it may *mean* that, but it didn't report that.  :-)

Anyway, semantics aside, obviously what I'm looking to find out is what 
kind of memory chip is installed (PC2100, PC2700, PC3200, etc.) which it 
doesn't look like it can tell me.

Thanks for the lmsensors tip, by the way, but I think I'm just going to 
leave this be for now.  I'll be able to crack the box open and take a 
look tonight.

DR