How To Install stress on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install stress
on CentOS 7.
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 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install stress.
Install stress on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install stress
using yum
by running the following command:
Install stress on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install stress
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall stress on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the stress
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install stress
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.