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Add --init-alloc-size parameter for fast initial allocation#6

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@iholder101 iholder101 commented Dec 18, 2024

Often, it is useful to first allocate a big chunk of memory
before continuing to gradually allocate smaller chunks
to cuase stress.

For example, let's say that someone is trying to hit a
certain memory limit of 5GB. In such a case, it is often
useful to first allocate 4GBs in one big chunk fastly,
and then continue stressing the system using allocation
size of 16MB each 5 seconds.

After this PR, the following is possible:
stress -mem-total 5Gi -mem-alloc-size 16Mi -mem-alloc-sleep 5s -init-alloc-size 4Gi

p.s. basing this PR on #5. Will remove once this PR is merged.

nirvanagit and others added 4 commits September 4, 2024 11:51
Often, it is useful to first allocate a big chunk of memory
before continuing to gradually allocate smaller chunks
to cuase stress.

For example, let's say that someone is trying to hit a
certain memory limit of 5GB. In such a case, it is often
useful to first allocate 4GBs in one big chunk fastly,
and then continue stressing the system using allocation
size of 16MB each 5 seconds.

After this PR, the following is possible:
stress -mem-total 5Gi -mem-alloc-size 16Mi -mem-alloc-sleep 5s
-init-alloc-size 4Gi

Signed-off-by: Itamar Holder <iholder@redhat.com>
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@vishh would be happy if you could take a look.

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ping :) @vishh

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