I'm running Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS. The output of the command yields: $ perl -e "print 1024 * qx{ awk '/^((Swap)?Cached|MemFree|Buffers):/{ sum += \\\$2 } END { print sum }' /proc/meminfo }" 528100048896
I will see if I can write a dummy Python script to reproduce my results as you've suggested. Cheers, Evan ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Thursday, July 9, 2020 3:24 AM, Ole Tange <ta...@gnu.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 10:55 PM edowni...@protonmail.com wrote: > : > > > I've pulled down version 20200622 as requested and reran the exact same > > command. > > It exits with the same error: > > > > - The version number: 20200622 > > - The bugid: Less than 1 byte memory free > > This error occurs (obviously) if there is less than 1 byte of memory > free. But it also occurs if the script detecting the amount of memory > free fails. > > For GNU/Linux the script is : > > perl -e "print 1024 * qx{ awk '/^((Swap)?Cached|MemFree|Buffers):/ > { sum += \\\$2 } END { print sum }' /proc/meminfo }" > > > Please let me know how I can help. > > Please run the above line. > > Also see if you can make it fail by running something other than Shap. > Possibly just a dummy Python script that eats all the memory. > > /Ole