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.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install stress using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install stress
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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install stress using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install stress
How To Uninstall stress on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the stress package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove stress
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install stress on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
