stress

A tool to put given subsystems under a specified load

Availability

Distro aarch64 noarch x86_64 Version
RHEL 10
RHEL 9
RHEL 8 1.0.4
RHEL 7
RHEL 6

Description

stress is not a benchmark, but is rather a tool designed to put given subsytems under a specified load. Instances in which this is useful include those in which a system administrator wishes to perform tuning activities, a kernel or libc programmer wishes to evaluate denial of service possibilities, etc.

Compatible with all RHEL-based distributions, including CentOS, AlmaLinux, Oracle Linux, Rocky Linux, etc.

Install

CentOS/RHEL 8
sudo dnf -y install https://extras.getpagespeed.com/release-latest.rpm
sudo dnf -y install stress