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A tool to stress test CPU, memory, and IO on a Linux system.

# To spawn 4 workers to stress test CPU:
stress -c <4>

# To spawn 2 workers to stress test IO and timeout after 5 seconds:
stress -i <2> -t <5>

# To spawn 2 workers to stress test memory (each worker allocates 256M bytes):
stress -m <2> --vm-bytes <256M>

# To spawn 2 workers spinning on write()/unlink() (each worker writes 1G bytes):
stress -d <2> --hdd-bytes <1GB>