Re: Unable to load interpreter ???

[Dave Beck <dave arginine umdnj edu>]

A somewhat related question:
	"free" reports what for the swap?
I may get shot for saying this, but I don't think the swap space larger
than 128Mb is _truly_ working in some of the new kernels.  It appears to
report is correctly, but I have notice that if my alpha hits that swap
point (only happened twice) stuff starts breaking and I get, among other
things "Cannot load interpreter" issues.  This seems to be the case in:
2.1.129 and 2.0.36.  No, I haven't run diffs or looked at CHANGELOGS to
see if that code was altered in the kernel source.

Quoting Sascha Schumann (sas@schell.de):
> On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Stefan Boresch wrote:
> 
> > 
> > > You wonder that it cannot load anything without having memory? 
> > 
> > No, you misunderstand my question / complaint.  The system ought
> > to have memory:  E.g. I have
> > 
> > 256MB RAM, > 300MB swapspace, so in an easy calculation, let's say
> > I have > 500MB of virtual memory.  
> > 
> > I can trigger the 'Cannot load interpreter' error by running a little
> > program (as I pointed out, the one D. Gilbert posted here a while 
> > ago) that accesses in an infinite loop appr. 260MB of memory. So,
> > knowing that the kernel needs some memory, it's clear that I will see
> > swapping, and I do.  Top clearly shows that some swap space is used,
> > but I am way below 500 MB of virtual memory.  Nevertheless, after
> > an hour or so, the 'Cannot load interpreter' error crops up.  This is
> > what I don't understand...
> 
> Ok, what does your /proc/sys/kernel/{file-max,inode-max} say?
> 
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