#INSTALING PRECISE CPU STRESS INSTALL#
#INSTALING PRECISE CPU STRESS SOFTWARE#

You can also enter a number, higher than the available CPU cores for adding a lot more stress on the CPU as well. For example, if you have a CPU with four cores and would like to stress them all, then you should be using the below command. If you want only to stress the CPU, then you can use it in the below format (on your Terminal window, of course).ĭepending on the type of your CPU, make sure to replace ‘ 1‘ accordingly. You can use ‘Stress’ to stress the above mentioned hardware individually or you can stress them all at the same time too.

#INSTALING PRECISE CPU STRESS INSTALL#

If interested, you can install it in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal, 13.04, 12.04 Precise Pangolin, 11.10, 10.10 and 10.04 by using the below command in your Terminal window.

Still, you can use it as a work load generator, for while benchmarking other utilities, such as an I/O scheduler, as mentioned above too. Remember, ‘Stress’ is not actually a benchmarking utility, as it does not give you any speed related outputs (like ‘lbench’ does), but is only a utility that lets you stress your computer. You can also delay the starting of the stress tests and make it automatically exit after running for a certain amount of time (in seconds) as well. It can not stress other hardware such as the GPU though. But, if you are okay with using the command-line, then you can also try ‘Stress’. It has a simple user interface and very easy to use, and is primarily a benchmarking tool. If you use Ubuntu and prefer a tool with a GUI, then you can use ‘lbench’.

#INSTALING PRECISE CPU STRESS SOFTWARE#

Stress testing can also be used to benchmark certain software applications, such as an I/O scheduler or a task scheduler (for instance) as well.

Or, if you have just overclocked your hardware (CPU, GPU, RAM …) and want to make sure that it won’t make your computer unstable, before applying those changes permanently, then stress testing is among the best ways of knowing that also (or for evaluating the capability of your PC in general). For example, if you have a faulty hardware, say a hard disk drive that is having performance issues, then you can run disk I/O intensive tests to see whether it is stable or not. Sometimes, stress testing a computer (despite what operating system it uses) can be a very useful thing.

Instaling Precise CPU Stress