Top 8 C Memory Projects

memreduct

30 5,015 7.8 C

Lightweight real-time memory management application to monitor and clean system memory on your computer.

Project mention: Recently during games my cpu goes to 100% and i barely get 30fps on games that used to run at 60fps easily. | /r/nvidia | 2023-07-18

Simply put: Memreduct is an app that cleans up processes and memory to help improve FPS.
sysstat

3 2,869 8.5 C

Performance monitoring tools for Linux
WorkOS

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stress-ng

5 1,423 9.9 C

This is the stress-ng upstream project git repository. stress-ng will stress test a computer system in various selectable ways. It was designed to exercise various physical subsystems of a computer as well as the various operating system kernel interfaces.
hardened_malloc

652 1,149 7.9 C

Hardened allocator designed for modern systems. It has integration into Android's Bionic libc and can be used externally with musl and glibc as a dynamic library for use on other Linux-based platforms. It will gain more portability / integration over time.

Project mention: WhatsApp forces Pegasus spyware maker to share its secret code | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-02
lwmem

1 273 6.9 C

Lightweight dynamic memory manager library for embedded systems with memory constraints. It implements malloc, calloc, realloc and free functions
ramrecovery

1 99 7.3 C

Simple demo illustrating remanence of data in RAM (see Cold boot attack) using a Raspberry Pi. Loads many images of the Mona Lisa into RAM and recovers after powering off/on again.

Project mention: Show HN: Simple demo of a cold boot attack using a Raspberry Pi | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-03
Memory-Allocators

1 22 4.9 C

A set of custom memory allocators (by pavlosdais)

Project mention: Memory Allocators | /r/C_Programming | 2023-08-26

Hey everyone! I recently created some memory allocators as a part of a mini-project. It's primarily made for educational purposes on this topic but if anyone is interested in using them and/or providing feedback here is a link to the repository. Thank you:)
InfluxDB

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Kwork

3 8 6.1 C

Cross-platform bundle for development on low memory machines

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020). The latest post mention was on 2024-03-02.