Dmidecode displays the size of a memory device (DIMM) in Gigabytes (GB)

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Issue

  • Size of a memory device (DIMM) lower than 32GB is displayed in MB.
Memory Device

    Size: 16384 MB               <----------
    Form Factor: DIMM
  • Whereas, size of a memory device (DIMM) more than or equal to 32GB is displayed in GB.
Memory Device

        Size: 32 GB               <----------
        Form Factor: DIMM

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • dmidecode-2.11 and above

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