ColinIanKing/stress-ng
This is the stress-ng upstream project git repository. stress-ng will stress test a computer system in various selectable ways. It was designed to exercise various physical subsystems of a computer as well as the various operating system kernel interfaces. observed · 2026-10-10
Health v2 · maintenance only
94/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 84
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 31.0
- age_days: 4155
- days_rel: 30
- days_push: 11
- n_releases_24m: 23
Adoption not part of the score
2793 stars · 394 forks observed · 2026-10-10
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
stress-ng is a command-line stress testing tool with 380+ stressors that exercise CPU, memory, filesystem, and OS kernel interfaces. It is designed to trip hardware issues like thermal overruns and expose operating system bugs under heavy load.
Use cases
- stress test cpu memory and disk on a linux server
- trip thermal overruns to find hardware issues
- exercise kernel interfaces under heavy system load
- measure throughput changes across os releases or hardware
- soak test a machine before deployment
- reproduce system bugs that only occur under load
When to choose
- you need to load-test physical subsystems or kernel interfaces on POSIX systems
- you want a portable stress tool across Linux, BSDs, macOS, and many CPU architectures
- you need rough throughput measurements to compare hardware or OS versions
When to avoid
- you need a precise, reproducible benchmark suite - stress-ng explicitly is not one
- you cannot tolerate a system running hot or thrashing, as some stressors can destabilize hardware
- you need GUI-based system testing
Facets
cli-tool · maturity active
testing benchmarking developer-tools developer-tools operating-systems performance testing cli cross-platform windows bsd stress-testing system-testing kernel-testing hardware-validation thermal-testing posix linux macos android docker
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/ColinIanKing/stress-ng · fetched 2026-10-10 · 4ee47c570d03
- homepage: https://github.com/ColinIanKing/stress-ng · fetched 2026-08-29 · 50306cf7a3ec
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| ColinIanKing/stress-ng | main | 94 |
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