In this article you will learn how to install Stress on Amazon Linux in 1 min.
“Stress” is a Linux utility to load and stress a computer system.
Time needed: 1 minute
How To Install Stress on Amazon Linux in 1 min. step by step
- Log in into your AWS EC2 Amazon Linux Instance
SSH Login into your AWS EC2 Amazon Linux Instance
- Install EPEL repository on Amazon Linux
$ sudo amazon-linux-extras install epel -y
- Install stress with YUM package manager
$ sudo yum install stress -y
Linux Stress usage example:
# stress --cpu 8 --io 4 --vm 2 --vm-bytes 128M --timeout 10s
-v, –verbose
be verbose
-q, –quiet
be quiet
-n, –dry-run
show what would have been done
-t, –timeout N
timeout after N seconds
–backoff N
wait factor of N microseconds before work starts
-c, –cpu N
spawn N workers spinning on sqrt()
-i, –io N
spawn N workers spinning on sync()
-m, –vm N
spawn N workers spinning on malloc()/free()
–vm-bytes B
malloc B bytes per vm worker (default is 256MB)
–vm-stride B
touch a byte every B bytes (default is 4096)
–vm-hang N
sleep N secs before free (default none, 0 is inf)
–vm-keep
redirty memory instead of freeing and reallocating
-d, –hdd N
spawn N workers spinning on write()/unlink()
–hdd-bytes B
write B bytes per hdd worker (default is 1GB)
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