# The sysutils/stress port

## stress-1.0.4p2 – tool to impose configurable amount of load

## Description

    stress is a tool which imposes a configurable amount of CPU, memory,
    I/O, or disk stress on a POSIX-compliant operating system.  It is
    written in highly-portable ANSI C, and uses the GNU Autotools to
    compile on a great number of UNIX-like operating systems.  stress is not
    a benchmark.  It is a tool used by system administrators to evaluate how
    well their systems will scale, by kernel programmers to evaluate
    perceived performance characteristics, and by systems programmers to
    expose the classes of bugs which only or more frequently manifest
    themselves when the system is under heavy load.

WWW: https://web.archive.org/web/20190702093856/https://people.seas.harvard.edu/~apw/stress/

Categories:
  sysutils

## Library dependencies

## Build dependencies

## Run dependencies