How to Impose High CPU Load and Stress Test on Linux Using ‘Stress-ng’ Tool
Aaron Kili
As a System Administrator, you may want to examine and monitor the status of your Linux systems when they are under stress of high load. How Do I use stress on Linux systems? Next, run the stress command to spawn 8 workers spinning on sqrt() with a timeout of 20 seconds. After running stress, again run the uptime command and compare the load average. To spwan one worker of malloc() and free() functions with a timeout of 60 seconds, run the following command.