C Program on Linux to exhaust memory

Question

I would like to write a program to consume all the memory available to understand the outcome. I\'ve heard that linux starts killing the processes once it is unable to alloc

Answer 1

Have a look at this program. When there is no longer enough memory malloc starts returning 0

#include 
#include 

int main()
{
  while(1)
  {
    printf("malloc %d\n", (int)malloc(1024*1024));
  }
  return 0;
}