Is there some method or software that could purposely generate a lot of physical memory fragmentations on linux?

[Mulyadi Santosa]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 1:52 PM 孙世龙 sunshilong <sunshilong369 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi, list
>       Is there some method or software that could purposely generate a lot
> of physical memory fragmentations on Linux?
>
>      I need to do some tests under such circumstances.
>
>     Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Hi

Just pseudo idea, if this is in user space, try to:  allocate many blocks
of memory using malloc, each having different size, keep the returned
pointer, then randomly free() some of them, then malloc() again with
different size
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regards,

Mulyadi Santosa
Freelance Linux trainer and consultant

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