Oom Killer - How to simulate an "out_of_memory"?

[Andre Luiz da Silva <andrack@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Friends!


I'm studyind some things about VM in Linux, and I was read in other place, that the

oom_kill.c is the best point to start.


I user space, I'm tried to simulate an "out_of_memory" creating a simple program 

that call sometimes the funcion malloc (with the swap space desactived), but I I did 

not have much success.


The only form that I obtained an "out_of_memory", was calling the command:

"rpm" at the bash shell in a infinite loop (the poor form). ;-)



Some suggestion?



Thanks!


(sure for my poor english...)