# uname -a
Linux ubuntu-m-16gb-nyc3-01 4.4.0-45-generic #66-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 19 14:12:37 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

# cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS

# history | grep wget
    5  wget http://files.pharo.org/get-files/60/pharo-64.zip
    6  wget http://files.pharo.org/sources/PharoV50.sources.zip
    7  wget https://bintray.com/estebanlm/pharo-vm/download_file?file_path=pharo-linux-x86_64threaded.0a4ccdf.zip

# ./bin/pharo -vm-display-null pharo-64.image st --quit memtest.st >& out.log &

Which gave the following (abbreviated) output:

uptime                  0h0m0s
memory                  70,918,144 bytes
        old                     61,966,112 bytes (87.4%)
        young           2,781,608 bytes (3.9000000000000004%)
        used            46,301,016 bytes (65.3%)
        free            18,446,704 bytes (26.0%)
GCs                             1 (207ms between GCs)
        full                    0 totalling 0ms (0.0% uptime)
        incr            1 totalling 0ms (0.0% uptime), avg 0.0ms
        tenures         0


Iteration 1
...

Iteration 8

...

uptime                  0h12m44s
memory                  5,238,300,672 bytes
        old                     5,229,348,640 bytes (99.80000000000001%)
        young           1,054,128 bytes (0.0%)
        used            5,207,806,800 bytes (99.4%)
        free            22,595,968 bytes (0.4%)
GCs                             23,509 (33ms between GCs)
        full                    19 totalling 147,969ms (19.400000000000002% uptime), avg 7787.8ms
        incr            23490 totalling 143,396ms (18.8% uptime), avg 6.1000000000000005ms
        tenures         107,267,532 (avg 0 GCs/tenure)
Since last view 23,508 (33ms between GCs)
        uptime          764.4000000000001s
        full                    19 totalling 147,969ms (19.400000000000002% uptime), avg 7787.8ms
        incr            23489 totalling 143,396ms (18.8% uptime), avg 6.1000000000000005ms
        tenures         107,267,532 (avg 0 GCs/tenure)

# free -m
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:          16047        4632       10647           3         768       11129
Swap:             0           0           0

So, yes, it works on Linux too.

Sven

[1]

| meta hold |

NonInteractiveTranscript stdout install.

Transcript crShow: SmalltalkImage current vm statisticsReport; cr.

hold := (1 to: 8) collect: [ :i |

Transcript crShow: 'Iteration ', i asString.

ASTCache reset.
meta := Dictionary new.
Smalltalk allClassesAndTraits do: [ :each | | classMeta methods |
(classMeta := Dictionary new)
at: #name put: each name asSymbol;
at: #comment put: each comment;
at: #definition put: each definition;
at: #object put: each.
methods := Dictionary new.
classMeta at: #methods put: methods.
each methodsDo: [ :method | | methodMeta |
(methodMeta := Dictionary new)
at: #name put: method selector;
at: #source put: method sourceCode;
at: #ast put: method ast;
at: #args put: method argumentNames asArray;
at: #formatted put: method ast formattedCode;
at: #comment put: (method comment ifNotNil: [ :str | str withoutQuoting ]);
at: #object put: method.
methods at: method selector put: methodMeta ].
meta at: each name asSymbol put: classMeta ].
meta.

].

3 timesRepeat: [ Smalltalk garbageCollect ].

Transcript crShow: SmalltalkImage current vm statisticsReport; cr.