Questions tagged [stress-ng]

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Stress-ng: RAM testing commands

Stress-ng: Can we test RAM using stress-ng? What are the commands used to test RAM on a MIPS 32 device?
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How to use perf tool with docker running stress-ng?

I am using stress-ng docker image from https://hub.docker.com/r/polinux/stress-ng/dockerfile to stress my system. I want to use perf tool to monitor metrics. perf stat -- stress-ng --cpu 2 --timeout 10 runs stress-ng for 10 seconds and returns…
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how to use stress-ng to stress memory

I need to stress memory to about 50% of system memory bandwidth capacity(say 3000MT/s is system memory bandwidth capacity). is this the right command for it? stress-ng -vm 2 --vm-bytes 10% -t 10
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Stress-ng stress memory with specific percentage

I am trying to stress a ubuntu container's memory. Typing free in my command terminal provides the following result: free -m total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 7958 585 …
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stress-ng not reaching 100% CPU load

I'm using stress-ng and not able to reach 100% cpu load. stress-ng, version 0.09.60 on kernel 4.1.35 a quad core ARM processor. I've used the following commands: stress-ng --matrix 4 --tz --ignite-cpu I noticed that the cpu climbs up in 25%…
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Stress-ng - Overload Memory

I want to test the systems reaction to a process that wants to consume more memory than there is available. I run stress-ng with the following command (on a 6G RAM machine): stress-ng --vm-bytes 8G --vm-keep -m 1 --aggressive but I get this…
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