system stress test

[Thomas Scott]

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.

running it looks something like this:

stress --cpu 4 --io 4 --vm 4 --vm-bytes 1024M --timeout 10s

you can find more info on it by checking info:

info stress

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.

Hope this helps!

On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 10:26 PM Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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).
> --
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