How To Install stress on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install stress on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install stress.
Install stress on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install stress using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install stress
Install stress on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
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 Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the stress package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove stress
stress Package Contents on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.