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A simple memory testing utility
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# memtest
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This is a simple utility which allocates as much megabytes of RAM as requested, pausing 0 or more seconds during allocation. It was designed to verify the progression of memory allocation on Linux environments under cgroups constraints for memory usage.
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## Building
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The following dependencies are required to build the software: gcc, automake, and [valgrind](http://valgrind.org/) for the small test suite.
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* `make all` to build, test, and prepare the program for release.
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* `make test` to build and test the program.
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* `make memtest` to just build the program.
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* `make clean` to clean the entire workspace.
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- `make all` to build, test, and prepare the program for release.
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- `make test` to build and test the program.
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- `make memtest` to just build the program.
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- `make clean` to clean the entire workspace.
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## Using
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The program accepts two arguments:
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* -m: memory size in MB, required.
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* -s: number of seconds to wait between allocations, optional.
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- -m: memory size in MB, required.
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- -s: number of seconds to wait between allocations, optional.
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### Sample run
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