Mentorship Session: Stress-ng: How to Stress Test Your Computer (and Possibly Break It)
health March 27th. 2025, 4:51amMentor: Colin Ian King, Principle Engineer, Intel
The stress-ng tool is designed to stress test kernels and hardware. The presentation describes the various ways stress-ng can be used to exercise a system as well as the testing concepts that shape the project:
– Overview and testing concepts
– Worked examples
– Building and installing stress-ng
– Results and success stories
– How to contribute to the project
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Stress Testing and Micro Benchmarking Kernels with Stress-ng – Colin Ian King, Canonical
stress-ng is a relatively new kernel stress and micro bench-marking tool with over 200 stress tests designed to comprehensively exercise a wide-range of kernel interfaces and core components. In this talk, Colin King will describe how stress-ng is being used for regression testing and performance bench-marking kernels across a range of kernels and architectures for IoT devices, servers and cloud environments.
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