I'm looking for a script or some other application that will use up a lot of memory on a Solaris or Linux server, in order to test a monitoring application. So far I have found a script that's good for CPU usage but it does nothing for memory. I have also tried the application called 'stress' (found here) but either it isn't using up enough memory to hit the monitoring threshold, or I'm not using it right, or it's just not suited to this kind of test.

So far the only method I have found is just lowering the threshold enough for an alarm to get sent, but that kinda seems like cheating n_n