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This is the stress-ng upstream project git repository. stress-ng will stress test a computer system in various selectable ways. It was designed to exercise various physical subsystems of a computer as well as the various operating system kernel interfaces. stress-ng was originally intended to make a machine work hard and trip hardware issues such as thermal overruns as well as operating system bugs that only occur when a system is being thrashed hard. Use stress-ng with caution as some of...

After reaching certain threshold of resource usage, patched Linux kernel satisfies or denies further requests randomly. This can be creatively used to annoy users or crash-test applications when memory or diskspace requests are denied at unexpected time.