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A way to send low memory warning to app on iPhone

I'm looking for some tool/app/tweak that can generate low memory warning on iPhone (jailbroken). Or, as alternative variant - tweak that simulates high memory usage.

I need it to test my app behavior on low memory warning.

Solution
    • You can test this on the Simulator, thru the "Simulate Memory Warning" menu item (from the "Hardware" menu)

    • On your device, you can call the private method _performMemoryWarning

      #if DEBUG
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] performSelector:@selector(_performMemoryWarning)];
#endif

    • Another solution is to send the notification manually too:

      CFNotificationCenterPostNotification(CFNotificationCenterGetDarwinNotifyCenter(), (CFStringRef)@"UISimulatedMemoryWarningNotification", NULL, NULL, true);