{"id":44609,"date":"2023-10-29T14:36:50","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T14:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=44609"},"modified":"2024-06-10T03:17:48","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T03:17:48","slug":"stress-test-cpu-ubuntu-debian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2023\/10\/stress-test-cpu-ubuntu-debian\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Perform Stress Test on Your CPU in Ubuntu \/ Debian"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This simple tutorial shows how to do stress test on your CPU in Ubuntu or Debian Linux, either Desktop or Server.<\/p>\n

Got a new CPU \/CPU cooler, or changed your computer environment? You can perform a stress test to find out if it’s working good! And, here’s how to do the trick in Debian, Ubuntu, and their based systems.<\/p>\n

Step 1: Install stress\/stress-ng & s-tui<\/h3>\n

In all current Ubuntu (20.04, 22.04, 24.04)<\/b> and Debian<\/b> releases, there are few command line and TUI tools to do the job.<\/p>\n

First, open terminal either from start\/application menu or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> on keyboard.<\/p>\n

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\nWhen it opens, run command:<\/p>\n

sudo apt install --install-suggests s-tui<\/pre>\n
Type user password (no asterisk feedback) for sudo authentication and hit Enter.<\/i><\/p>\n
The command will install s-tui<\/code>, with TUI interface to start, stop, configure stress test, and monitor your CPU status in terminal.<\/p>\n
With --install-suggests<\/code> option, it also installs the stress<\/code> or stress-ng<\/code> package as the backend for the testing.<\/p>\n
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Step 2: Perform Stress Test<\/h3>\n
After installing the tool, simply run the command below in terminal to start s-tui:<\/p>\n
s-tui<\/pre>\n
Then, you’ll see something look like the screenshot below shows you.<\/p>\n
In left, it shows some options, as well as summaries of core temperatures, and frequencies. In right, it shows information about the temperature, utilization rate,etc in graphs.<\/p>\n
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To start stress test, just left click on ( )Stress<\/b> in the top-left corner of terminal, or use arrow key to highlight it and hit Enter. To stop it, just click to switch back ( )Monitor<\/b>.<\/p>\n
By clicking Stress Options<\/b> in left, it will show you option to set a timeout to automatically stop stress testing in given seconds. You can also change Sqrt() worker count and Sync() worker count to specify how many cores to run for stress test.<\/p>\n
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Tips 1 :<\/b> For GNOME, Ubuntu’s default desktop environment, open “Power<\/b>” settings and change CPU power mode to ‘Performance’ before performing stress test, or your CPU may not run in full speed.<\/p>\n
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Tips 2<\/b>: While stress testing, you may also monitor the temperature of other devices (e.g., SSD) in your machine. To do so, you may install ‘hardinfo’ by running command in terminal:<\/p>\n
sudo apt install hardinfo<\/pre>\n
Then open it and navigate to ‘sensors’ tab in left.<\/p>\n
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That’s all. Enjoy!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This simple tutorial shows how to do stress test on your CPU in Ubuntu or Debian Linux, either Desktop or Server. Got a new CPU \/CPU cooler, or changed your computer environment? You can perform a stress test to find out if it’s working good! And, here’s how to do the trick in Debian, Ubuntu, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2088],"class_list":["post-44609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-howtos","tag-power"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}