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Re: GNU Parallel Bug Reports Problems with --memfree option


From: Andreas Bernauer
Subject: Re: GNU Parallel Bug Reports Problems with --memfree option
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 23:15:05 +0200
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On 13/08/15 21:37, Ole Tange wrote:
> I think it should be MemFree + Buffers + Cached + SwapCached.

I agree - except for SwapCached which I don't know what it is.

>> Further, I'm wondering why parallel is grepping the buffers/cache line
>> instead of the 'free' column...
> 
> It looks at the free column AND at the buffers/cache line.
> 
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:      32765028   32362040     402988    1063944     207564   11111620
> -/+ buffers/cache:   21042856   11722172
> Swap:     38920180      22764   38897416
> 
> On this system GNU Parallel should find 11 G free, and not 0.4 G. The same 
> here:

I agree. Did you mean to add 402988 and 11722172? Because I don't think
that line of parallel does that:
                "linux" => q{ print (1024*((grep /buffers.cache/, `free`)[0] =~
/buffers.cache:\s+\S+\s+(\S+)/)[0]) },

-Andreas



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