Stress

stress generates CPU load on systems.

• macOS: brew install stress

• stress --cpu 20
• stress --help

Examples

Stress using 1 cpu:

• stress --cpu 1

Stress using IO-bound task

• stress -i 3

Related commands

• cgexec
• xz
• Stress-ng

See also

• Load testing, K6
• nice, stress, stress-ng, tload, ionice, %nice, %idle
• top, ntop, htop, atop, iotop, systemd-cgtop, virt-top, stress, slabtop, docker stats, docker top, docker container top, docker-compose top, nmon, tload, kubectl top pod PODNAME, sar, kubectl top, glances, vmstat, gpustat, asitop
• Memory: memory pages, RAM, virsh Memory Commands, OOM, meminfo, vmstat, NAND, DDR, lsmem, /dev/shm, /proc/meminfo, sar -r, IOMMU, pmem, Memory management, Garbage collector, THP, Linux Huge Page TLB