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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.

3 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 1 story, 2 comments · first 2018-04-17 · latest 2025-09-03

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  1. …specifically. I recently sent a pull request to try to address that in a generic manner: https://github.com/ColinIanKing/stress-ng/pull/561 Yet I'm still surprised by this benchmark. On both Zen2 and Zen4 in my tests (5900X from the…
    comment by Aissen · 2025-09-03 · in %CPU utilization is a lie
  2. One can also just use stress-ng [0], which is packaged in pretty much any distro. [0] https://github.com/ColinIanKing/stress-ng