Re: Memory Consuming Application

Thanks for the suggestion:-)

I wrote a simple sorting program -- sorting by adding to set-- and I 
sorted 50000000 randomly generated numbers, and this works!


[email protected] wrote:
>                     Hello, Lei!
> 
> I say, run N gcc compilations in parallel, in low priority so they ain't
> killing each other. That oughta do it, and wait for SIGSEGV
> to see if you hack's not so good :)
> 
> On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Lei Yang wrote:
> 
> 
>>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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