From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 3 11:44:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sol (cs1-gw.cs.binghamton.edu [128.226.171.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6376A156F0 for ; Mon, 3 May 1999 11:44:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu) Received: from localhost (zzhang@localhost) by sol (SMI-8.6/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA00450 for ; Mon, 3 May 1999 14:34:17 -0400 Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 14:34:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhihui Zhang To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: cat /dev/mem | wc -c Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sometime ago, I found on the web that I can use the special device /dev/mem to determine the amount of physical memory the machine has. So I run the following command: # date; cat /dev/mem | wc -c ; date But it seems to run forever (at least hours). Is there something wrong? Thanks for any help. -------------------------------------------------- Zhihui Zhang. Please visit http://www.freebsd.org -------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message