RAM size shown is incorrect (Debian 9.2)

[OneCDOnly]

Linux Version 4.9.0-4-amd64, Compiled #1 SMP Debian 4.9.51-1 (2017-09-28)
Four 2.13GHz Intel Atom Processors, 128TB RAM, 17068 Bogomips Total

The display above is from a machine with only 3GB RAM,

Linux Version 4.9.0-4-amd64, Compiled #1 SMP Debian 4.9.51-1 (2017-09-28)
Eight 800MHz Intel i7 Processors, 128TB RAM, 67207 Bogomips Total

And this one has 32GB RAM.

Thank you. :)

[aaronfranke]

My system reads "128TB RAM" with this tool, too, but it only has 16 GB RAM.

Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit.

[deater]

This is because on recent Linux /proc/iomem is filled with zeros for security reasons.

When I get a chance I'll see what the best alternative to use is.

[silvernode]

I wonder what inxi reads to display RAM size? Might be a good place to get ideas.

[aaronfranke]

I decided to do some research on my own. Neofetch, a similar program, grabs memory from /proc/meminfo. Seems simple enough. On my system:

$ cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:       16381696 kB
MemFree:         2334052 kB
MemAvailable:    3471604 kB

This should be incredibly easy to pull the info from, it's just string parsing. Here's their code.

[thegreyshadow]

Confirmed in Slackware -current 64bit (post 14.2).

[TedHartDavis]

Also true on current Arch.

[wbraswell]

This 128TB RAM bug is also present in Ubuntu 16.04.1 running Linux Logo Version 5.11 using libsysinfo 0.2.1

[deater]

should be fixed with 714bb13

[wbraswell]

@deater
What is the best and easiest way to access this fix? Should I just wait for Ubuntu packages to update?

$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS

$ uname -a
Linux starman 4.4.0-177-generic #207-Ubuntu SMP Mon Mar 16 01:16:10 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ dpkg -s linuxlogo
Package: linuxlogo
Status: install ok installed
Priority: extra
Section: misc
Installed-Size: 350
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 5.11-8
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7), lsb-base
Conffiles:
 /etc/init.d/linuxlogo c1341159da0a73ae24a94c4ad115a79e
 /etc/linux_logo.conf 168d10482a20036fd79be254d0430e37
Description: Color ANSI System Logo
 A Color ANSI Logo with some system information that can be displayed at system
 boot time or, with some local configuration, at the login prompt. Four
 different Logos are available:
 .
  * Debian Swirl(default)
  * Debian Banner
  * Tux Classic and Banner
 .
 The Classic and Banner Logos are based on Larry Ewing's Penguin. Monochrome
 ASCII versions of all the logos are included.
Original-Maintainer: Dariusz Dwornikowski <dariusz.dwornikowski@cs.put.poznan.pl>
Homepage: http://www.deater.net/weave/vmwprod/linux_logo/

[aaronfranke]

@wbraswell The updated version of this package will be included in future versions of Ubuntu, and it definitely will not be added to 16.04.