How To Install stress on CentOS 8

stress is A tool to put given subsystems under a specified load

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install stress on CentOS 8.

What is stress

stress is not a benchmark, but is rather a tool designed to put given subsytems under a specified load. Instances in which this is useful include those in which a system administrator wishes to perform tuning activities, a kernel or libc programmer wishes to evaluate denial of service possibilities, etc.

We can use yum or dnf to install stress on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install stress.

Install stress on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install stress using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install stress

Install stress on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install stress using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install stress

How To Uninstall stress on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the stress package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove stress

stress Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/stress
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/80
/usr/lib/.build-id/80/0abdc1177388d244b2d95344b87604e53c0c89
/usr/share/doc/stress
/usr/share/doc/stress/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/stress/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/stress/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/stress/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/stress/README
/usr/share/doc/stress/TODO
/usr/share/doc/stress/stress.html
/usr/share/info/stress.info.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/stress.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install stress on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.