Simulates a memory leak by consuming memory in small chunks. Suitable for testing performance and behavior of software in cases of having almost no available RAM.

Tested on macOS only so far, but build for Linux is coming.

As of now, there's no way to avoid building (which is quite simple though). Just clone the repo, run make build and you'll get the binary in target/build/simleak. Before running the command, make sure you have g++ and make installed.

$ simleak -h Simulates a memory leak by consuming memory in small chunks Usage: simleak [OPTION...] -m, --memory-limit arg Sets memory limit in MBs (default: 32768) -c, --chunk-size arg Sets chunk size in MBs (default: 32) -v, --verbose Enable verbose execution log -z, --fill-with-zeroes Fill the allocated memory with zeroes instead of random values (faster) -h, --help Print this help message 

This small binary is using cxxopts for parsing command-line arguments. Thanks to @jarro2783 for creating and maintaining it.

This software is distributed under the MIT license. See LICENSE.md for the details.