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Stress testing is a form of testing that is used to determine the stability of a given system or entity.

It involves testing beyond normal operational capacity, often to a breaking point, in order to observe the results. Stress testing may have a more specific meaning in certain industries, such as fatigue testing for materials.

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How do I stress test CPU and RAM (at the same time)?

I've searched the net and came across the Ubuntu wiki saying stress-ng --matrix 0 is supposed the best. But there are dedicated stressors for CPU and RAM (looking at man). Any ideas which one is the best to use? Thank you
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CPU stress testing with "stress"

I'm planning to stress test my OCed AMD Athlon X4 880K from a live session. I've heard about the "stress" tool. How is it used for CPU stress testing? I plan to monitor temps with lm_sensors. Do you know of the correct syntax to make "sensors" run…
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Overclock monitoring and stress testing tools in Ubuntu

I would like to know what tools are available to Ubuntu users for monitoring the overclock done in the BIOS and to stress-test the machine. Tools for the following: 1) Tool to reliably read actual clock speeds of the CPU when they are on and off…
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Install Prime95/Mprime on Ubuntu 20.04

How do we install Mprime or Prime95 on Ubuntu 20.04 using apt? Or must it be installed from a .deb/tar.gz file? I am planning to stress test my Threadripper CPU using this application.
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How to test individual RAM modules with memtest86?

I bought a used PC that is quite old and decided to test the RAM with memtest86 (ran for about 3.5 hrs) using a live USB but it seems that only one module (the first one in slot 0 which is the slower one) is tested. Since the test never finishes,…
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Is it possible to run stress at the same time as vmstat/iostat etc?

I have written two scripts-one to stress the system and one to run vmstat etc. I am able to get the file outputs for vmstat etc but am not able to get the ones for stress as it tells me that the file cannot be found no matter how much I tweak the…
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Is there a way I can artificially heat up my machine to do some cooling testing?

So I have a case mod that I have been working on. It's a small form factor so I require a creative way to cool the system. I am in the testing stages so I am looking for the best way to crank up the heat through the system. Now by heat i mean the…
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How to reduce free memory to certain number for specific time duration

I want to stress memory for certain time duration. I am checking memory usage with vmstat -s and using tail /dev/zero command but tail /dev/zero times out in about 60s and it fills out memory randomly. I want to have available free memory 5% for 180…
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Ubuntu 16.04: CPU Stress test

I have Lenovo Thinkpad E531, Core i3. I feel my machine is not working properly, Like opening applications, File to file opening, Everything takes a bit extra time both on linux and windows, But now i am using ubuntu 16.04. So i used stress-ng. With…
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How to test overclocked memory for stability with stressapptest?

After some research I’d like to try this app to test my memory on Linux after all Windows based software as well as memtest86 came up with no errors. What’s the recommended way to run it?
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Stress the bandwidth and disk read in linux

I need to trigger HighBandwidth and high disk read for my alert testing purpose. So does anyone knows any Linux command to trigger HighBandwidth(transmitted and received) at 70GB as well as disk read more than 50MB for testing purpose?
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How to display percentage of CPU load info set by stress-ng utility at specific interval into terminal?

I need to write stress testing utility to set all CPU to specific load value and need to display CPU load to terminal window at every 1 sec(which depends on user pass argument) so user can verified CPU load I am setting CPU load to 80% (based on…
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Analyze cpu usage when do stress on cpu

How can I analyze my cpu when I run stress on cpu? When I enter the following command for any value of n: (For example 5, 10, 20, 40) sudo stress --cpu n --timeout 40s The top command result for cpu usage is 100%. So when I change the n value, what…
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Installing The Stress Terminal UI, s-tui

From reading some other threads on here, I learned about the existence of s-tui. Here is some more information about it https://github.com/amanusk/s-tui#simple-installation However, when I type the command sudo pip install s-tui terminal…
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16.04 Stress Test

I am putting together a desktop for a 13 year old nephew with 3GB RAM and a single core 3.2 Ghz CPU (originally outfitted with Windows Vista). I have reviewed the system requirements for 16.04. An SSD has been ordered: I am unsure if 16.04 with…
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