stress-ng vs tlp-stress

stress-ng

This is the stress-ng upstream project git repository. stress-ng will stress test a computer system in various selectable ways. It was designed to exercise various physical subsystems of a computer as well as the various operating system kernel interfaces. (by ColinIanKing)

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tlp-stress

A workload-centric stress tool for Apache Cassandra. Designed for simplicity, no math degree required. (by thelastpickle)

Cassandra stress-testing

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stress-ng		tlp-stress
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5	Mentions	2
1,430	Stars	55
-	Growth	-
9.9	Activity	0.0
4 days ago	Latest Commit	6 months ago
C	Language	Kotlin
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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stress-ng

Posts with mentions or reviews of stress-ng. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-15.

Absolutely Simple Infrastructure Monitoring
1 project | dev.to | 21 Jun 2022

I used the following stress-ng command for this example:
Temperature of server in enclosed entertainment unit - too hot?
1 project | /r/homelab | 28 Mar 2022

I would look into using stress/stress-ng to fully load your system and monitor the temperatures over an hour. If it's less than 80C after that hour, should be all good.
Microsoft to build energy efficient, heat-producing data centre in Finland
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Mar 2022

One can also just use stress-ng [0], which is packaged in pretty much any distro.
[0] https://github.com/ColinIanKing/stress-ng
CPU Stress Test
1 project | /r/linuxmasterrace | 20 Jan 2022

stress-ng is available on most OSes. https://github.com/ColinIanKing/stress-ng
How do you stress test your Linux machine?
5 projects | /r/linux_gaming | 15 Sep 2021

https://github.com/ColinIanKing/stress-ng is pretty great

tlp-stress

Posts with mentions or reviews of tlp-stress. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-15.

Cassandra Database Migration to Kubernetes with Zero Downtime
2 projects | dev.to | 15 Feb 2022

Add any other user-created keyspace to the list. Here we only have the tlp_stress keyspace which was created by the tlp-stress tool to generate some data for the purpose of this migration.
Creating self-contained executable JARs
2 projects | /r/java | 10 Jan 2021

Ospackage config is here: https://github.com/thelastpickle/tlp-stress/blob/master/build.gradle#L138

What are some alternatives?

When comparing stress-ng and tlp-stress you can also consider the following projects:

phoronix-test-suite - The Phoronix Test Suite open-source, cross-platform automated testing/benchmarking software.

test-gen - 🧪 Test Generator CLI | Stress Testing | Create Supercharged Test Cases with Ease!

unbench - Benchmark utility for Linux.

pumba - Chaos testing, network emulation, and stress testing tool for containers

FIRESTARTER - FIRESTARTER: A Processor Stress Test Utility. This repository contains the source code generator. Our releases (including the generated source code and precompiled binaries) are available at https://tu-dresden.de/zih/firestarter/.

k8ssandra-terraform

OpenSuperClone - A powerful data recovery utility for Linux with many advanced features based on Scott Dwyer's HDDSuperClone.

dbbench - 🏋️ dbbench is a simple database benchmarking tool which supports several databases and own scripts

daemon - turns other processes into daemons

JDK - JDK main-line development https://openjdk.org/projects/jdk

virtio_vmmci - My 3/4-hearted attempt at making a Linux virtio driver for OpenBSD VMM Control Interface

korio - Korio: Kotlin cORoutines I/O : Virtual File System + Async/Sync Streams + Async TCP Client/Server + WebSockets for Multiplatform Kotlin 1.3