stress-ng VS unbench

Compare stress-ng vs unbench and see what are their differences.

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)

unbench

Benchmark utility for Linux. (by cyberrumor)
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stress-ng unbench
5 2
1,391 0
- -
9.9 5.1
about 8 hours ago over 2 years ago
C Rust
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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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.

unbench

Posts with mentions or reviews of unbench. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-15.
  • How do you stress test your Linux machine?
    5 projects | /r/linux_gaming | 15 Sep 2021
    I started writing this benchmark in Rust, but to be honest, I think the compiler optimizes all the logic out of the workloads, so I don't believe it's entirely reliable. I was using it to test RAM overclocks and numbers were all over the place, unless you don't build with the --release flag.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

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/.

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

daemon - turns other processes into daemons

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

testdisk - TestDisk & PhotoRec

gst

tlp-stress - A workload-centric stress tool for Apache Cassandra. Designed for simplicity, no math degree required.

psutil - Cross-platform lib for process and system monitoring in Python