<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">There is a package called `stress` that can be used to literally "stress" a system - depending on your system specs would determine how many cpu cores you would want to utilize in the test, I've never run it with more than my system had, (but now I'm curious). I don't think it's a default package however, so you might need to apt/yum/pacman/emerge as necessary. </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">running it looks something like this: </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">stress --cpu 4 --io 4 --vm 4 --vm-bytes 1024M --timeout 10s</font></div></div><div style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">you can find more info on it by checking info: </font></div><div style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style=""><font face="monospace, monospace">info stress</font></div><div style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I usually run it in one terminal window then have another running my process monitor (top, htop, conky etc) to observe and tweak the parameters. </font></div><div style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Hope this helps!</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 10:26 PM Michael <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">a while ago my computer would crash. Someone gave me two commands to run to see if something was not working as it should be. I ran the first command and my computer handled it. But then I ran the second command (I think while the first was running) and the system crashed. I want those tw stress test commands. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? I really appreciate you guys (even if you can't help).<br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_-373828665341406995gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">:-)~MIKE~(-:</span><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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