Comparing assigned memory to actual memory

You can compare the amount of memory you have designated for a partition with the amount of memory that is actually allocated by your system.

1. Run the cat /proc/ppc64/lparcfg command.
2. Look for the DesMem field. This number represents the amount of memory, in MB, that you assigned to the partition.
3. Compare the number reported in the DesMem field to the number in the MemTotal field, which is expressed in kB and found in the /proc/meminfo file.