How To Install stressapptest on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install stressapptest in Fedora 36. stressapptest is Stressful Application Test - userspace memory and IO test

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install stressapptest on Fedora 36.

What is stressapptest

Stressful Application Test (or stressapptest, its unix name) is a memory interface test. It tries to maximize randomized traffic to memory from processor and I/O, with the intent of creating a realistic high load situation in order to test the existing hardware devices in a computer. It has been used at Google for some time and now it is available under the Apache 2.0 license.

We can use yum or dnf to install stressapptest on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install stressapptest.

Install stressapptest on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install stressapptest

Install stressapptest on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install stressapptest

How To Uninstall stressapptest on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove stressapptest

stressapptest Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/stressapptest
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/06
/usr/lib/.build-id/06/58d1d20adbe24db647b5257645acc786981705
/usr/share/doc/stressapptest
/usr/share/doc/stressapptest/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/stressapptest
/usr/share/licenses/stressapptest/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/stressapptest/NOTICE
/usr/share/man/man1/stressapptest.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install stressapptest on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).