Re: Memory Consuming Application

I know I could open 10 or 20 web browser to try out the idea. The
problem now is I've got to have a certain application that can be tested
under several different systems. The result has got to be repeatable:( 

On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 12:43, Matthew Mundy wrote:
> Not sure of an application (other than the old Mozilla builds :)) but a
> simple application to use a lot of memory is pretty easy.  IE create a lot
> of char * pointers until it is sufficiently filled (not sure the call to
> test free mem etc, but /proc/meminfo has values that work), then swap the
> values in the arrays to try the IO, rinse repeat until memory is tested as
> you want it :)
> ---Matt
> On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Lei Yang wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > I wanna find an application to test a kernel hack that I am trying. This
> > application must be extremely memory consuming and would require a lot
> > of swapping and i/o access, especially swapping. I have an IBM A30
> > thinkpad with 256MB RAM and Pentium III processor. This shouldn't be
> > a very fast machine but when I tried with kernel compiling, still 68% of
> > the memory is free:(
> >
> > Could anyone help? TIA!
> >
> > Lei
> >
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