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This is a simple C program that is done to test memory allocation and dealocation on a system.

It can be useful do diagnostic problems such as the fixed by this kernel patch where the hyper-V of WSL2 doesn't reported the free of memory.

As this until now is a simple C file we can compile the program just by running:

gcc memo_usage.c -o memtestr -Wall

This utility is designed to be a tester tool to memory usage, it works like that:

./memtestr <amount-of-memory> <unit> <interval>

In the example bellow:

./memtestr 10 MB 15

The mem usage tool will operate this way:

1 - It will alloc 10MB of memory
2 - Sleep for 15 seconds
3 - free the 10 MB of memory
4 - Sleep for 15 seconds
5 - Start all over until you press CTRL+C

The possible units are:

• B -> Bytes
• KB -> Kilobytes
• MB -> Megabytes
• GB -> Gigabytes

The default values are 5 KB under a interval of 10 (s)