# stress # A tool to stress test CPU, memory, and IO on a Linux system. # More information: <https://manned.org/stress>. # Spawn 4 workers to stress test CPU: stress -c 4 # Spawn 2 workers to stress test IO and timeout after 5 seconds: stress -i 2 -t 5 # Spawn 2 workers to stress test memory (each worker allocates 256M bytes): stress -m 2 --vm-bytes 256M # Spawn 2 workers spinning on write()/unlink() (each worker writes 1G bytes): stress -d 2 --hdd-bytes 1GB $Follow @igor_chubin cheat.sh tldr