stressypy 0.0.5

A simple program for calling stress and/or stress-ng from python

stressypy uses the unix package stress and/or stress-ng to to stress a certain number of cpus for a certain amount of time.

Installation

stressypy can be installed with pip install stressypy

or cloned manually and setup with python setup.py install

stressypy is dependent on the stress-ng unix package. Make sure you have both installed.

Unix Distro	Command
Debian	sudo apt-get install stress-ng
Arch Linux	pacman -S stress-ng

Directions

stressypy runs using the command stressy stress with the number of cpus and time passed as arguments

• stressy stress 1 1 stresses 1 core for 1 second

• stressy stress 7 3 stresses 7 cores for 3 second