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Re: Kernel: Unable to load interpreter



On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Chris Kaltwasser wrote:

> Does someone know the meaning of this message?  I've got a machine running
> hamm that's been doing this fairly often the past couple of days.  The hard
> drive starts thrashing, and just about everything I try to do becomes
> impossible.  Just now I had to do a hardware restart, which gets it working
> "normally" again.  Could this be a problem with the kernel image or
> something like that?

How much RAM and swap space does your computer have? "Unable to load
interpreter" can mean that your computer is out of virtual memory.

If your computer is giving these messages again, try to run the 'free'
command and see how much free memory you have. 'ps uax' can give you
useful information if you think one particular program is using an
excessive amount of memory.

Remco


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