I am doing server testing and intentionally trying to crash a virtual Solaris server by using all memory. Server has a ulimit of 15 GB (several hundred GB of total system/swap memory). Is there a straight forward way of doing this using a shell/Perl script? (This is in a hardened/secured environment so the only accessable tool is Perl [and shell of course]).
Background: What is actually being tested is failover of essential processes to another server. Lately we have been having a number of processes "go out of control" and consume all system resources thus causing server to crash (separate issue). I am trying to create a simple repeatable scenario to test the response to this situation.
ulimit -aH
tell you?