stress

A tool to stress test CPU, memory, and IO on a Linux system.

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• Spawn 4 workers to stress test CPU:

stress -c {4}

• Spawn 2 workers to stress test IO and timeout after 5 seconds:

stress -i {2} -t {5}

• Spawn 2 workers to stress test memory (each worker allocates 256M bytes):

stress -m {2} --vm-bytes {256M}

• Spawn 2 workers spinning on write()/unlink() (each worker writes 1G bytes):

stress -d {2} --hdd-bytes {1GB}

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