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zoobab/eatmemory

By zoobab

•Updated almost 6 years ago

This image builds eatmemory so that you can specify the amount of MB as a docker env var.

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zoobab/eatmemory repository overview

⁠noswpatv3 noswpatv3 eatmemory

⁠1. Introduction

Simple utility to allocate memory on a computer

⁠2. What can I use this for?

  • Test swap
  • Test behaviors on a machine when there is little memory available

⁠3. Usage

⁠Installation
cd /tmp
git clone https://github.com/julman99/eatmemory.git
cd eatmemory
sudo make install
⁠Running
eatmemory <size>

Size is in number of bytes, megabytes or gigabytes.

⁠Examples
eatmemory 1024
eatmemory 10M
eatmemory 4G

⁠4. Docker image

Building the container

$ docker build . -t eatmemory

Running a container to eat 128MB:

$ docker run -d --name mycontainer eatmemory 128M

Check the memory consumption of the container:

$ docker stats --no-stream=true mycontainer
CONTAINER           CPU %               MEM USAGE / LIMIT       MEM %               NET I/O             BLOCK I/O             PIDS
mycontainer         0.00%               133.9 MiB / 3.651 GiB   3.58%               2.01 kB / 1.08 kB   1.217 MB / 3.265 MB   4

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Bitcoin Address: 14LFRrMX3HmyAH9zQsnzYoVKDH6bVWiBu3

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almost 6 years ago

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