memory-eater

memory-eater

Eats memory at a specified constant rate

Installation

Home brew

$ brew install kishaningithub/tap/memory-eater

Yum

yum install -y https://github.com/kishaningithub/memory-eater/releases/download/v0.0.9/memory-eater_0.0.9_linux_amd64.rpm

Systemd

Do the yum installation as above and do the following

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kishaningithub/memory-eater/main/memory-eater.service --output /etc/systemd/system/memory-eater.service

For a detailed list see releases page

Examples

Eat 100MB per second

memory-eater --step-size=100MB --step-duration=1s

Usage

$ memory-eater -h
Eats memory at a given constant rate

Usage:
  memory-eater [flags]

Examples:
memory-eater --step-size=100MB --step-duration=1s

Flags:
  -h, --help                   help for memory-eater
      --profile                profile this cli tool
      --step-duration string   Duration of every step. Valid time units are "ns", "us" (or "µs"), "ms", "s", "m", "h" (default "1s")
      --step-size string       Size of memory to eat during every step. Valid byte units are "B", "KB", "MB", "GB", "TB", "PB" and "EB" (default "1MB")

Advanced examples

Profiling the utility

1. To profile just add --profile flag to any command you want to profile
2. To view the results run go tool pprof -http=:1235 mem.pprof
3. Open url http://localhost:1235 in your browser