NAME

       leak-memory - eat your memory like Obelix eats cake

SYNOPSIS

       leak-memory [max_memory_size]

DESCRIPTION

       leak-memory will eat your memory like Obelix eats cake until it will eventually trigger the out of memory
       (OOM)  killer.   This  program is useful to test configured cgroups memory limitations and the OOM killer
       behavior.

       leak-memory will use malloc to allocate 1 MiB blocks of memory in a loop until the given  maximum  memory
       size (by default 42 TiB) is reached.  The allocated memory blocks will be filled with data to avoid opti‐
       mization  preventing  the  leak.  The program will report its progress to make it easy to spot when leak-
       memory hits the OOM killer.

OPTIONS

       max_memory_size
              Maximum memory size to allocate in MiB (42 TiB by default)

AUTHOR

       Benjamin Drung <bdrung@posteo.de>

chaos-marmosets                                    2021-04-23                                     LEAK-MEMORY(1)