Stress-ng Installation On A Debian, Ubuntu, Kali, Fedora, Raspbian And MacOS

Stress-ng Installation On A Debian, Ubuntu, Kali, Fedora, Raspbian And MacOS

stress-ng

tool to load and stress a computer

Maintainer: Colin King



Section: devel

Install stress-ng

  • Debian apt-get install stress-ng Click to copy
  • Ubuntu apt-get install stress-ng Click to copy
  • Kali Linux apt-get install stress-ng Click to copy
  • Fedora dnf install stress-ng Click to copy
  • Raspbian apt-get install stress-ng Click to copy
  • macOS brew install stress-ng Click to copy

stress-ng

tool to load and stress a computer

stress-ng can stress various subsystems of a computer. It can stress load CPU, cache, disk, memory, socket and pipe I/O, scheduling and much more. stress-ng is a re-write of the original stress tool by Amos Waterland but has many additional features such as specifying the number of bogo operations to run, execution metrics, a stress verification on memory and compute operations and considerably more stress mechanisms.

To install the latest version of stress-ng in your favorite operating system just copy the stress-ng installation command from above and paste it into terminal. It will download and install the latest version of stress-ng 2026 package in your OS.