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Old 05-20-2009
Need to create a memory leak
Hi.

This might be a strange request, but does anyone have any idea on a simple shell script that would use more and more memory as it ran? Like a purposeful leak.

I want to test the behaviour of an already running program when the machine runs out of memory.

Thanks!
# 2  
Old 05-20-2009
Write a small C program which continuously loops and mallocs a chuck of memory each time.
# 3  
Old 05-20-2009
Code:
#!/bin/sh
while (true) do
$0
done

# 4  
Old 05-21-2009
Bad. Idea. That's not a memory leak, that's a fork bomb.
# 5  
Old 05-24-2009
In perl,

keep the reference count greater than 0
Code:
my $hash_ref;
{
    my %check = (
                            abc => def
                         );

    $hash_ref = \%check;
}

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