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Generating synthetic CPU load on Linux

Posted by Daniel Hölbling on February 15, 2017

While working on some alerting and metric collection about our infrastructure at Bitmovin I wanted to test out if the alerts I configured are actually triggered when a server experiences high CPU load.

I came across this beautiful Stackoverflow Answer that did exactly what I needed:

seq 3 | xargs -P0 -n1 md5sum /dev/zero

This command will saturate 3 cores with 100% user load until you cancel the command with CRTL+C.

Filed under linux, devops, server
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