/usr/bin/free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 251 197 53 31 139 21 -/+ buffers/cache: 37 214 Swap: 127 5 122 The first number here (251) is the amount of physical ram in Mb (-m)
COOL!! Now I know for sure that it is seeing all of it - the GUI reported the same 900K+ number with either the 256, the 512 or both in the system.
# /usr/bin/free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 758 132 625 83 14 82 -/+ buffers/cache: 34 723 Swap: 128 0 128 Thanks!!Jale