Linux: How to put a load on system memory?

Question

I\'m working on a small function, that gives my users a picture of how occupied the CPU is.

I\'m using cat /proc/loadavg, which returns the well known 3 num

Answer 1

Very simple actually: install stress tool and do:

stress --vm X --vm-bytes YM

• replace X with the number of worker you want to spawn and "malloc()" your RAM
• replace Y with the amount of memory that each worker has to allocate

Example:

stress --vm 2 --vm-bytes 128M