LKBEN11394: Find out how much RAM a windows server has, from the command line
LKB | Created: 19/09/2020 | Version: 6 | Language: EN | Rating: 0 | Outdated: False | Marked for deletion: False
Author: Wim Peeters - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG
Latest update: 19/09/2020 | Comment:
Symptom
You want to know the speed and the RAM capacity
Cause
When having performance problems it might be good to know the RAM or just to know if you can still expand
Solution
From the GUI you can use taskmanager and look in the memory tab.
From the command line you can use the following command:
wmic MEMORYCHIP get BankLabel,DeviceLocator,Capacity,Speed
This is an output on a server system:
BankLabel Capacity DeviceLocator Speed
8589934592 PROC 1 DIMM 1 1333
8589934592 PROC 1 DIMM 2 1333
8589934592 PROC 1 DIMM 3 1600
8589934592 PROC 1 DIMM 4 1333
8589934592 PROC 1 DIMM 5 1333
8589934592 PROC 1 DIMM 6 1600
8589934592 PROC 1 DIMM 7 1600
8589934592 PROC 1 DIMM 8 1333
8589934592 PROC 1 DIMM 9 1333
8589934592 PROC 1 DIMM 10 1600
8589934592 PROC 1 DIMM 11 1333
8589934592 PROC 1 DIMM 12 1333
8589934592 PROC 2 DIMM 1 1333
8589934592 PROC 2 DIMM 2 1333
8589934592 PROC 2 DIMM 3 1600
8589934592 PROC 2 DIMM 4 1333
8589934592 PROC 2 DIMM 5 1333
8589934592 PROC 2 DIMM 6 1600
8589934592 PROC 2 DIMM 7 1600
8589934592 PROC 2 DIMM 8 1333
8589934592 PROC 2 DIMM 9 1333
8589934592 PROC 2 DIMM 10 1600
8589934592 PROC 2 DIMM 11 1333
8589934592 PROC 2 DIMM 12 1333
As an alternative, to just find the total memory (RAM = random access memory), you can use:
sysinfo > %temp%\sysinfo.txt
notepad %temp%\sysinfo.txt
In your text editor you can now see the total amount of memory. Please note, this is language specific.
...
Gesamter physischer Speicher: 196.573 MB
Verfgbarer physischer Speicher: 117.025 MB
Virtueller Arbeitsspeicher: Maximale Große: 196.573 MB
Virtueller Arbeitsspeicher: Verfgbar: 116.996 MB
Virtueller Arbeitsspeicher: Zurzeit verwendet: 79.577 MB
...
About the Author
Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux in different European countries and different European languages. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform where he is one of the most important contributors and the main developer.