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2026-07-22 04:46 UTC

Excellent, thank you I will check these out. Have you got a link to a beginners guide for these? I am new to linux and am used to GUI’s from windows. I am having a look around and found a couple of articles, going to look for videos next. But being new to linux and using the terminal more I’d gladly take the advice of someone more experienced such as yourself.

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@Vittelius@feddit.org 2026-07-22 16:12

I’m not sure, if there is a true beginners guide, as stress testing is generally considered at least slightly advanced stuff. But the Ubuntu Wiki has this guide that comes close: wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Reference/stress-ng

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@ohshit604@lemmy.halstead.host 2026-07-22 17:23

What distro are you using? There are 3 big distro’s you need to keep in mind for, Debian, Arch and Fedora, every other distro typically bases themselves off of one of these big distro’s. documentation is your friend, that means lots of reading and interpretation, if you’re using a Debian based distros the stress ng repository linked above has this in their documentation - Debian packages for Ubuntu Recent versions of stress-ng are available in the Ubuntu stress-ng ppa for various Ubuntu releases: launchpad.net/~colin-king/+archive/…/stress-ng (run the commands below to install the software) sudo add-apt-repository ppa:colin-king/stress-ng sudo apt update sudo apt install stress-ng Now that is installed, they have an examples section. Examples Run 8 CPU stressors for 60 seconds: stress-ng --cpu 8 --timeout 60 stress-ng: info: [184401] setting to a 1 min run per stressor stress-ng: info: [184401] dispatching hogs: 8 cpu stress-ng: info: [184401] skipped: 0 stress-ng: info: [184401] passed: 8: cpu (8) stress-ng: info: [184401] failed: 0 stress-ng: info: [184401] metrics untrustworthy: 0 stress-ng: info: [184401] successful run completed in 1 min

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