stress-ng stress tests a computer system in various ways.
The utility is designed to exercise various physical subsystems of a computer as well as the various operating system kernel interfaces.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- 300+ stress tests.
- 80+ CPU specific stress tests that exercise floating point, integer, bit manipulation and control flow.
- 20+ virtual memory stress tests.
- 40+ file system stress tests.
- 30+ memory/CPU cache stress tests.
- Portable: builds on Linux (Debian, Devuan, RHEL, Fedora, Centos, Slackware OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, etc..), Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, Minix, Android, MacOS X, Serenity OS, GNU/Hurd, Haiku, Windows Subsystem for Linux and SunOs/Dilos/Solaris. with gcc, musl-gcc, clang, icc, icx, tcc and pcc.
- Tested on alpha, armel, armhf, arm64, hppa, i386, m68k, mips32, mips64, power32, ppc64el, risc-v, sh4, s390x, sparc64, x86-64.
Website: github.com/ColinIanKing/stress-ng
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Developer: Colin Ian King
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
stress-ng is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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