Category: Computer

I keep looking this up so saving for posterity. This is a good way to get memory info in Ubuntu:

sudo lshw -C memory

This gets all sort of useful info. I needed to get the memory speed since I have too many computers with too many different memory speeds. Doesn’t seem to show that it is ECC memory but I also had to know that. See below for ECC and memory speed.

  *-firmware              
       description: BIOS
       vendor: LENOVO
       physical id: 0
       version: 5JKT50AUS
       date: 09/27/2010
       size: 64KiB
       capacity: 2496KiB
       capabilities: pci upgrade shadowing cdboot bootselect socketedrom edd int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer acpi usb biosbootspecification
  *-cache:0
       description: L1 cache
       physical id: 5
       slot: L1-Cache
       size: 32KiB
       capacity: 32KiB
       capabilities: internal write-back unified
       configuration: level=1
  *-cache:1
       description: L2 cache
       physical id: 6
       slot: L2-Cache
       size: 256KiB
       capacity: 256KiB
       capabilities: internal varies unified
       configuration: level=2
  *-cache:2 DISABLED
       description: L3 cache
       physical id: 7
       slot: L3-Cache
       size: 4MiB
       capacity: 4MiB
       capabilities: internal unified
       configuration: level=3
  *-memory
       description: System Memory
       physical id: 2c
       slot: System board or motherboard
       size: 14GiB
     *-bank:0
          description: DIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1066 MHz (0.9 ns)
          product: M391B5673EH1-CH9
          vendor: Samsung
          physical id: 0
          serial: FCBB3D85
          slot: A1_DIMM0
          size: 2GiB
          width: 64 bits
          clock: 1066MHz (0.9ns)
     *-bank:1
          description: DIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1066 MHz (0.9 ns)
          product: 18JSF51272AZ-1G1D1
          vendor: Micron Technology
          physical id: 1
          serial: D7172936
          slot: A1_DIMM1
          size: 4GiB
          width: 64 bits
          clock: 1066MHz (0.9ns)
     *-bank:2
          description: DIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1066 MHz (0.9 ns)
          product: CT51272BA1067.M18F
          vendor: Undefined
          physical id: 2
          serial: 00000000
          slot: A1_DIMM2
          size: 4GiB
          width: 64 bits
          clock: 1066MHz (0.9ns)
     *-bank:3
          description: DIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1066 MHz (0.9 ns)
          product: 18JSF51272AZ-1G1D1
          vendor: Micron Technology
          physical id: 3
          serial: 5DC579DE
          slot: A1_DIMM3
          size: 4GiB
          width: 64 bits
          clock: 1066MHz (0.9ns)

To get ECC and speed use this:

dmidecode --type memory
...
Handle 0x002C, DMI type 16, 15 bytes
Physical Memory Array
	Location: System Board Or Motherboard
	Use: System Memory
	Error Correction Type: Single-bit ECC
	Maximum Capacity: 8 GB
	Error Information Handle: 0x002D
	Number Of Devices: 4
...
Handle 0x0032, DMI type 17, 28 bytes
Memory Device
	Array Handle: 0x002C
	Error Information Handle: 0x0033
	Total Width: 72 bits
	Data Width: 64 bits
	Size: 4096 MB
	Form Factor: DIMM
	Set: None
	Locator: A1_DIMM1
	Bank Locator: A1_BANK1
	Type: DDR3
	Type Detail: Synchronous
	Speed: 1066 MHz
	Manufacturer: Micron Technology
	Serial Number: D7172936  
	Asset Tag: NULL
	Part Number: 18JSF51272AZ-1G1D1
	Rank: 2

I upgraded the server from 14.04 to 16.04 and slowly discovered everything was not working perfectly with the ZFS functionality. Researching it appears zfsonlinux doesn’t support 16.04 since ZFS is a part of 16.04. However I couldn’t get the Ubuntu version to load and got this error. It gave me the pointer that the old trusty (14.04) version was the issue.

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 zfsutils-linux : Depends: zfs-doc (= 0.6.5.6-0ubuntu15) but 0.6.5.7-1~trusty is to be installed
                  Depends: libnvpair1linux but it is not going to be installed
                  Depends: libuutil1linux but it is not going to be installed
                  Depends: libzfs2linux but it is not going to be installed
                  Depends: libzpool2linux but it is not going to be installed
                  Recommends: zfs-zed but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

So had to purge the non Ubuntu trusty packages and start over. This will find the old installed zfs packages:

dpkg -l|grep zfs

Then you can purge the packages old trusty (14.04) to remove them:

sudo apt-get purge zfs-doc

Make sure nothing odd is in /etc/apt. Then install the native Ubuntu version with the normal:

sudo apt install zfsutils-linux