Hi.
There are almost 2M hits from Google
stress Linux test.
I have often used
memtest86 for memory loading, and
bonnie++ to benchmark and work mass storage.
Here is something from the Debian repository:
Quote:
Package: stress
Version: 0.18.4-1
Priority: optional
Section: devel
Maintainer: Amos Waterland <apw@rossby.metr.ou.edu>
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4)
Architecture: i386
Filename: pool/main/s/stress/stress_0.18.4-1_i386.deb
Size: 17966
Installed-Size: 52
MD5sum: 937d0188d7e298f4a27d2d148f67f1ee
Description: A tool to impose load on and stress test a computer system
'stress' is a tool that imposes a configurable amount of CPU, memory, I/O,
or disk stress on a POSIX-compliant operating system and reports any errors
it detects.
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'stress' is not a benchmark. It is a tool used by system administrators to
evaluate how well their systems will scale, by kernel programmers to evaluate
perceived performance characteristics, and by systems programmers to expose
the classes of bugs which only or more frequently manifest themselves when
the system is under heavy load.
Best wishes ... cheers, drl