How do you stress test your Linux machine?

• phoronix-test-suite

  46 2,300 6.9 PHP

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

  

• stress-ng

  5 1,430 9.9 C

  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.

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

• WorkOS

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• gst

  6 - -

• unbench

  2 0 5.1 Rust

  Discontinued Benchmark utility for Linux.

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.

• FIRESTARTER

  6 108 5.7 C++

  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/.

  

I've found Firestarter (https://github.com/tud-zih-energy/FIRESTARTER) is able to generate the highest CPU temperatures compared to other utilities. It's absolutely not comparable to real-world loads, but if can't make your PC crash, then your overclock is probably stable.

• InfluxDB

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