Open-Source Stress Testing & Torturing Your Linux Software/Hardware

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 6, 2016

Looking to absolutely hammer your hardware or software for ensuring maximum reliability, thermal performance, or responsiveness? It’s easy.

While it’s little talked about on here, one of the less heard of features of the Phoronix Test Suite is it’s stress-run functionality. Phoronix-test-suite stress-run (see that article for all the background information) has been in our open-source benchmarking software for more than the past year and is found in versions since Phoronix Test Suite 5.6.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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