#DONT STARVE TOGETHER OUT OF MEMORY PORTABLE#
#DONT STARVE TOGETHER OUT OF MEMORY FREE#

x | head -c BYTES | tail ( yes outputs an infinite amount of 'yes'es, tr substitutes the newline such that everything becomes one huge line and tail needs to keep all that in memory).Īnother, simpler alternative is using dd: dd if=/dev/zero bs=1G of=/dev/null uses 1GB of memory on GNU and BusyBox, but also 100% CPU on one core.įinally, if your head does not accept a suffix, you can calculate an amount of bytes inline, for example 50 megabytes: head -c $((1024*1024*50))Ĭredits to falstaff for contributing a variant that is even simpler and more broadly compatible (like with BusyBox). If you do not have a /dev/zero device, the standard yes and tr tools might substitute: yes | tr Just inserting the | pv | part will show you the current status (throughput and total by default). Of course this can also be done with previous variants:

#DONT STARVE TOGETHER OUT OF MEMORY PORTABLE#

head -c 5000m | tail #~5GB, portable

#DONT STARVE TOGETHER OUT OF MEMORY FREE#

If you have basic GNU tools ( head and tail) or BusyBox on Linux, you can do this to fill a certain amount of free memory:

Dont starve together out of memory