Provided by: stress_1.0.1-1ubuntu1_amd64
NAME
stress - tool to impose load on and stress test systems
SYNOPSIS
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 Example: stress --cpu 8 --io 4 --vm 2 --vm-bytes 128M --timeout 10s Note: Numbers may be suffixed with s,m,h,d,y (time) or B,K,M,G (size).
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 should give you access to the complete manual.