Malloc and memset a certain amount of memory, in a loop, by chunk of 500 MiB.

It takes one argument, the number of 500 MiB chunk you want to try to allocate. The default value (if no argument) is 7 (3.5 GiB).

Check how much memory is available before you run it ; if your physical memory is alreay allocated and you have enough swap enable... well, it will swap!

It should just work!

On Solaris 10, gcc produces a 32 bit executable by default, use -m64:

export CC=gcc
export CFLAGS='-m64'
gmake takememory