system stress test

[Jerry Snitselaar]

On Tue Apr 02 19, Todd Cole wrote:
>I use stress to check cpu/MB Temps under load to determine cpu coolers and
>case fan performance.
>
>apt-get install lm-sensors
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>sensors-detect   press enter at all promptsservice kmod start
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>watch -n 1 sensors
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>apt-get install stress
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>apt-get install stress-ng
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>stress-ng --cpu 8 --io 4 --vm 2 --vm-bytes 128M --fork 4 --timeout 10m
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>open two terminals one to run stress one to monitor temps
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>8=number cpu cores    10=minutes to test
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I'd also recommend stress-ng. Colin has put a lot of work and features into that.

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>On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 8:19 AM Carruth, Rusty <Rusty.Carruth at smartm.com>
>wrote:
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>> That looks interesting (stress).  I did manage to find a message on
>> 11/5/2017 where bmike1 ran memtester
>>
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>>
>> However, on 10/31/2017 there was a message referencing a message about
>> running glmark2 and stress (and dt).  So my guess is stress and glmark2
>>
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>> Here’s a cut from the emails:
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>> On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 3:38 PM, Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>  $ stress --cpu 8 --io 4 --vm 2 --vm-bytes 128M --timeout 10s
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>> stress: info: [7571] dispatching hogs: 8 cpu, 4 io, 2 vm, 0 hdd
>>
>> stress: info: [7571] successful run completed in 10s
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>> and
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>>
>> So maybe kick off both stress and
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>> glmark2 --run-forever
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>> I did the search the hard way, by going through my old email folders.  I
>> probably should have just gone to the archives of the mailing list…  Oh,
>> well.
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>>
>> Rusty
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>> *From:* PLUG-discuss [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.phxlinux.org] *On
>> Behalf Of *Thomas Scott
>> *Sent:* Monday, April 01, 2019 8:13 PM
>> *To:* Main PLUG discussion list
>> *Subject:* Re: system stress test
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
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>> running it looks something like this:
>>
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>> stress --cpu 4 --io 4 --vm 4 --vm-bytes 1024M --timeout 10s
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>> you can find more info on it by checking info:
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>> info stress
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>> 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.
>>
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>> Hope this helps!
>>
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>> On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 10:26 PM Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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).
>> --
>>
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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