diff --git a/pages/linux/stress.md b/pages/linux/stress.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..78a171930 --- /dev/null +++ b/pages/linux/stress.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +# stress + +> A tool to stress test CPU, memory, and IO on a Linux system. + +- 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}}`