Stress-ng 0.01.22 will be landing soon in Ubuntu 14.10 with three more stress mechanisms:
- CPU affinity stressing; this rapidly changes CPU affinity of the stress processes just to keep the scheduling busy wasting effort.
- Timer stressing using the real-time clock; this allows one to generate a large amount of timer interrupts, so it is a useful interrupt saturation test.
- Directory entry thrashing; this creates and deletes a selectable number of zero length files and hence populates and destroys directory entries.
Stress-ng now has 15 different simple stress mechanisms that exercise CPU, cache, memory, file system, I/O and CPU schedulers. I could add more tests, but I think this is a large enough set to allow one to thrash a machine and see how well it performs under pressure.
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