User:Maffblaster/Drafts/stress

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The stress utility imposes stressful loads on different aspects of system hardware.

Installation

Kernel

KERNEL Enable support for
Write kernel feature instructions here.

USE flags

USE flags for app-benchmarks/stress A deliberately simple workload generator for POSIX systems

static !!do not set this during bootstrap!! Causes binaries to be statically linked instead of dynamically

Emerge

root #emerge --ask app-benchmarks/stress

Configuration

Configuration for stress is limited to command-line options.

Usage

Invocation

user $stress --help

Removal

Unmerge

root #emerge --ask --depclean --verbose app-benchmarks/stress

See also

  • stress-ng - A "next generation" tool designed to stress test system hardware.
  • badblocks - A small program for stress testing block devices.