weekly challenge


1: write a program that consumes all memory resources available [u]as quick as possible[/u].
2: write a simple garbage collector, that tries to free all consumed resources.

implement your submissions using the C programming language.
deadline is due thread-start-time + 100 hours.

good luck.

>>5,11
Your program caps out at about 600 MB memory, 55 processes, 128 GB of address space, and 100% CPU utilization.  I'm running it right now, no noticeable slowdown.

Check it yourself, fork() is returning -1 and malloc is returning NULL.