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STRESS(1) | User Commands | STRESS(1) |
NAME¶
stress - tool to impose load on and stress test systemsSYNOPSIS¶
stress [ OPTION [ARG]] ...DESCRIPTION¶
`stress' imposes certain types of compute stress on your system- -?, --help
- show this help statement
- --version
- show version statement
- -v, --verbose
- be verbose
- -q, --quiet
- be quiet
- -n, --dry-run
- show what would have been done
- -t, --timeout N
- timeout after N seconds
- --backoff N
- wait factor of N microseconds before work starts
- -c, --cpu N
- spawn N workers spinning on sqrt()
- -i, --io N
- spawn N workers spinning on sync()
- -m, --vm N
- spawn N workers spinning on malloc()/free()
- --vm-bytes B
- malloc B bytes per vm worker (default is 256MB)
- --vm-stride B
- touch a byte every B bytes (default is 4096)
- --vm-hang N
- sleep N secs before free (default is none, 0 is inf)
- --vm-keep
- redirty memory instead of freeing and reallocating
- -d, --hdd N
- spawn N workers spinning on write()/unlink()
- --hdd-bytes B
- write B bytes per hdd worker (default is 1GB)
- --hdd-noclean
- do not unlink files created by hdd workers
SEE ALSO¶
The full documentation for stress is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and stress programs are properly installed at your site, the command- info stress
August 2009 | stress 1.0.1 |