I've also re-structured the tool in several ways to enhance the features and make it easier to maintain. The cpu stress method has been re-worked to include nearly 40 different ways to stress a processor, covering:
- Bit manipulation: bitops, crc16, hamming
- Integer operations: int8, int16, int32, int64, rand
- Floating point: long double, double, float, ln2, hyperbolic, trig
- Recursion: ackermann, hanoi
- Computation: correlate, euler, explog, fibonacci, gcd, gray, idct, matrixprod, nsqrt, omega, phi, prime, psi, rgb, sieve, sqrt, zeta
- Hashing: jenkin, pjw
- Control flow: jmp, loop
I've also added more generic system stress methods too:
- bigheap - re-allocs to force OOM killing
- rename - rename files rapidly
- utime - update file modification times to create lots of dirty file metadata
- fstat - rapid fstat'ing of large quantities of files
- qsort - sorting of large quantities of random data
- msg - System V message sending/receiving
- nice - rapid re-nicing processes
- sigfpe - catch rapid division by zero errors using SIGFPE
- rdrand - rapid reading of Intel random number generator using the rdrand instruction (Ivybridge and later CPUs only)
- metrics-brief - this dumps out only the bogo-op metrics that are relevant for just the tests that were run.
- verify - this will sanity check the stress results per iteration to ensure memory operations and CPU computations are working as expected. Hopefully this will catch any errors on a hot machine that has errors in the hardware.
- sequential - this will run all the stress methods one by one (for a default of 60 seconds each) rather than all in parallel. Use this with the --timeout option to run all the stress methods sequentially each for a specified amount of time.
- Specifying 0 instances of any stress method will run an instance of the stress method on all online CPUs.
The stress-ng man page gives far more explanation of each stress method and more detailed examples of how to use the tool.
For more details, visit here or read the manual.
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