Re: Unable to load interpreter // VM thrashing or hardware ???

[Greg Lindahl <lindahl cs virginia edu>]

> It's undoubtedly reading files...  I don't know where to look to find free
> pages but /proc/sys/vm/freepages gives:

There's more than one way to look:

[lindahl@spica lindahl]$ vmstat 2
 procs                  memory    swap        io    system         cpu
 r b w  swpd  free  buff cache  si  so   bi   bo   in   cs  us  sy  id
 0 0 0  1004  8764 19248 197448   0   0    1    0    0   14   0   0 23
 0 0 0  1004  8664 19248 197448   0   0    0    0  142   86   0   2 98
 0 0 0  1004  8664 19248 197448   0   0    0   16  148   73   0   1 99

"free" in this context is the free pages of ram.

> In top, the "free" swap field is always exactly 512M - "used".

You want the free Mem field, not free swap.

The guy with the problem is apparently seeing the free Mem fall to 0
while there is still free swap left.

-- g