Additional CPU Stress Testing Options Provided by Stress-ng tool
More than this, Stress-ng will give you additional options that you can use to stress test your machine’s CPU. Some notable ones include:
- –cpu-method: Give the way of doing CPU straining (example may be ‘all’ or ‘bitops’, or ‘matrix’).
- –cpu-ops: Indicate the number of operations per second for the CPU stressor.
- –cpu-ops-precision: State the accuracy of the operation per second calculations.
Finally, you may also try out the stress test using these options based on your personal needs. You can also refer to the help option if you want to see what other options stress-ng offers. you can see the example below in the image with the command:
stress-ng -h
Help Page of stress-ng too
How to Impose High CPU Load and Stress Test on Linux Using ‘Stress-ng’ Tool
The system must have the capacity to handle a high workload regarding systems administration activities including performance testing. One such method used in testing the robustness of a system at its limit points is known as stress testing. Stress-ng is also a great versatile and strong tool for stress testing. This article is aimed at providing instructions on how to set up to overstress a Linux system or high-CPU load.
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