diff --git a/applications/test/maxMem/Make/files b/applications/test/maxMem/Make/files
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index f7e2a956a..000000000
--- a/applications/test/maxMem/Make/files
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Test-maxMem.C
-EXE = $(FOAM_USER_APPBIN)/Test-maxMem
diff --git a/applications/test/maxMem/Make/options b/applications/test/maxMem/Make/options
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index c1239ff7a..000000000
--- a/applications/test/maxMem/Make/options
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@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-EXE_LIBS = /* $(FOAM_EXT_LIBBIN)/libfbsdmalloc.o */
diff --git a/applications/test/maxMem/Test-maxMem.C b/applications/test/maxMem/Test-maxMem.C
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index 590c542ee..000000000
--- a/applications/test/maxMem/Test-maxMem.C
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@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-#include <iostream>
-#include <stdlib.h>
-using namespace std;
-
-int main(int argc, char *argv[])
-{
-    if (argc != 2)
-    {
-        cerr << "Usage: " << argv[0] << " <number of Mb per chunk>\n";
-        exit(1);
-    }
-
-    int nBytes = (1024U*1024U)*atoi(argv[1]);
-
-    char *cPtr;
-
-    for (unsigned i=1;; i++)
-    {
-        cPtr = new char[nBytes];
-
-        /*
-        for (int j=0; j<nBytes; j++)
-        {
-            cPtr[j] = 0;
-        }
-        */
-
-        cout << "allocated " << i*nBytes/(1024U*1024U) << " Mbytes" << endl;
-    }
-
-    return 0;
-}