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Looking for open source linux / android stress testing software. (lemmy.ml)
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Looking for open source linux / android stress testing software. Specifically to test storage / ram / cpu / gpu etc. Same goes for android but to also include tests for the screen / speakers / sensors etc.

Coming from windows I would use OCCT / prime95 / memtest86+ / 3D mark / valley benchmark, h2testw. So I am looking for open source alternatives, preferably with a gui, for both linux and android.

This is with an aim to just stress testing components for several hours to make sure the system as a whole is stable and working well. For new / second hand systems and for fault location troubleshooting.

Thank you.

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[–] [S] 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

    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, 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:

    https://launchpad.net/~colin-king/+archive/ubuntu/stress-ng

    (run the commands below to install the package)

    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

    Couple of definitions and examples that will help you along the way.

    • Package = Software
    • Dependencies = Xyz package depends on xyz package to function
    • Package manager = The package used to install other packages (apt, yum, rpm, etc)
    • Root user = User ID = 0 (UID) and Group ID = 0 (GID) otherwise known as the administrator account
    • Root filesystem = the “/“ folder
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