LEAK-MEMORY(1)

💖 LEAK-MEMORY 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the leak-memory page from leak-memory’s Manual — it's chaotic, it's iconic, and it will absolutely eat your RAM for breakfast 🍓

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✨ NAME ✨

leak-memory — eat your memory like Obelix eats cake 🎂

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

leak-memory [max_memory_size]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so like. leak-memory will eat your memory like Obelix eats cake until it eventually triggers the out of memory (OOM) killer. no cap. that's the whole personality. 💀

and that's literally the point, bestie — this program is useful to test configured cgroups memory limitations and the OOM killer behavior. it's giving "I'm the stress test" and it ate. 👑

here's the vibe: 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 — yes queen, we're defeating the compiler's little attempts to clean up after us 🙈

and because it's a considerate icon, the program will report its progress to make it easy to spot when leak-memory hits the OOM killer. so you'll see the exact moment it goes down. main character energy, honestly. 😭🔥

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• max_memory_size — maximum memory size to allocate in MiB (42 TiB by default). that's right, the default is forty-two tebibytes. she's ambitious fr fr 💜

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Benjamin Drung bdrung@posteo.de — the mastermind, the legend, the one who said "what if memory leak, but on purpose" 🫶

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and that's the whole page, bestie! this one shipped as part of chaos-marmosets, dated 2021-04-23, and the manpage header said LEAK-MEMORY(1). go forth and leak responsibly, iykyk 💖✨🎀