#!/usr/bin/env python
# memory_hog.py - Simple test script for kill_memory_hogs.py
# Copyright (C) 2007 Johann C. Rocholl <johann@rocholl.net>
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"""
Allocate 400 MiB of RAM and go to sleep:
# memory_hog.py 400

Then you can use the following to kill it:
# kill_memory_hogs.py 400
"""

__revision__ = "$Rev: 1464 $"
__date__ = "$Date: 2007-06-08 22:12:43 +0200 (Fri, 08 Jun 2007) $"
__author__ = "$Author: johann $"

import sys
import time
from array import array

MEGS = int(sys.argv[1])
KILOBYTE = array('B', [0] * 1024)

a = array('B')
for meg in range(MEGS):
    for i in range(1024):
        a.extend(KILOBYTE)
    sys.stdout.write(str(meg + 1) + chr(13))
    sys.stdout.flush()

while True:
    time.sleep(1)