stress: Stress test unix-like systems1

stress is a tool to impose load on and stress test Unix-like systems. It will impose user-specified amounts of CPU, I/O, RAM, and HDD load and report any errors it detects. It is used for automated stress testing and for debugging system components which fail only or more often when under load. It runs on x86, PPC64, and PPC 32 GNU/Linux, Tru64, SPARC Solaris, and more.

... part of T2, get it here

URL: http://freshmeat.net/redir/stress/20035/url_homepage/stress

Author: Amos Waterland <awaterl [at] yahoo [dot] com>
Maintainer: Valentin Ziegler <valentin [at] t2-project [dot] org>

License: GPL
Status: Stable
Version: 1.0.4

Remark: Does cross compile (as setup and patched in T2).

Download: http://weather.ou.edu/~apw/projects/stress/ stress-1.0.4.tar.gz

T2 source: stress.cache
T2 source: stress.desc

Build time (on reference hardware): 1% (relative to binutils)2

Installed size (on reference hardware): 0.05 MB, 8 files

Dependencies (build time detected): 00-dirtree bash binutils coreutils diffutils findutils gawk grep linux-header make sed tar

Installed files (on reference hardware): [show]

1) This page was automatically generated from the T2 package source. Corrections, such as dead links, URL changes or typos need to be performed directly on that source.

2) Compatible with Linux From Scratch's "Standard Build Unit" (SBU).