Load Generation

loadgen.md

Memory load gen:

free -m

CPU load gen:

stress --cpu 2 --timeout 60

or

dd if=/dev/urandom | bzip2 -9 >> /dev/null

Disk IO generation:

dd if=/dev/urandom of=abc.ibd bs=1M count=1024    # Creates 1GB file
dd if=/dev/urandom of=abc.ibd bs=1M count=100   # Creates 100MB file

Reference:

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2925606/how-to-create-a-cpu-spike-with-a-bash-command

Compile Stress for Centos 7

wget http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/repo/pkgs/stress/stress-1.0.4.tar.gz/a607afa695a511765b40993a64c6e2f4/stress-1.0.4.tar.gz
tar zxvf stress-1.0.4.tar.gz
cd stress-1.0.4
./configure
make
sudo make install