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 optimization 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>