stress

linux

Stress test CPU, memory, and IO on a Linux system.

Subcommands (1)

Load and stress a Linux system in various ways (CPU, memory, I/O, etc.). Useful for benchmarking, hardware validation, and stability testing.

-c, --cpuboolean

Spawn 4 workers to stress test CPU

Example: stress {{[-c|--cpu]}} {{4}}

-i, --ioboolean

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

Example: stress {{[-i|--io]}} {{2}} {{[-t|--timeout]}} {{5}}

-t, --timeoutboolean

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

Example: stress {{[-i|--io]}} {{2}} {{[-t|--timeout]}} {{5}}

-m, --vmboolean

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

Example: stress {{[-m|--vm]}} {{2}} --vm-bytes {{256M}}

-d, --hddboolean

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

Example: stress {{[-d|--hdd]}} {{2}} --hdd-bytes {{1GB}}

Spawn 4 workers to stress test CPU

stress [-c|--cpu] 4

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

stress [-i|--io] 2 [-t|--timeout] 5

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

stress [-m|--vm] 2 --vm-bytes 256M

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

stress [-d|--hdd] 2 --hdd-bytes 1GB