LOAD THE CPU AND MEMORY ON Linux

tar zxvf stress-1.0.4.tar.gz

cd stress-1.0.4

./configure
make && make install

stress -m 512M

To start stress run stress followed by the -c flag for load stress, -m for memory stress, -i for io and -d for HDD. For example to stress cpu execute

TO LOAD THE CPU AND MEMORY ON Linux

stress –cpu 4 -m 20G –vm 2 –vm-bytes 10G