stress-ng dependant

--metrics-brief --klog-check --yaml file --with stressor,stressor --sequential N

--iostat??

rust front-end?

✅ Verification Always Enabled

These stressors have their verification logic built-in and active by default.

🧠 CPU (General, Compute, Math & Sorting)

besselmath  ## not available in older versions

bitops

branch

chyperbolic

context

cpu-online

crypt

ctrig

eigen

expmath

factor

far-branch

fp-error

funccall

funcret

goto

hyperbolic

intmath

list

logmath

longjmp

misaligned

mpfr

powmath

priv-instr

rdrand

regs

skiplist

sparsematrix

trig

veccmp

vecmath

vecshuf

vnni

waitcpu

x86cpuid

x86syscall

🚦 CPU (Cache, Atomics & Mutex)

atomic

cachehammer

cacheline

dekker

llc-affinity

mtx

mutex

peterson

💾 Memory (RAM)

brk

dev-shm

memfd

numa

physpage

ptr-chase

shm

shm-sysv

stack

stackmmap

📄 Virtual Memory (VM) & Paging

mincore

mlock

mmapaddr

mmapfiles

mmapfixed

mmapfork

mmaphuge

mmapmany

mprotect

mseal

msync

msyncmany

munmap

pagemove

remap  //'mmap: stress-ng-remap (63173) uses deprecated remap_file_pages() syscall. See Documentation/mm/remap_file_pages.rst.'


rmap

swap

userfaultfd

vm-addr

vm-segv

💽 Storage I/O (Disk)

aio

aiol

full

io

iomix

ioprio

io-uring

loop

null

pseek

rawdev

revio

sync-file

tee

vm-splice

zero

📁 Filesystem (Metadata & Ops)

access

acl

bind-mount

chattr

chdir

chmod

chown

chroot

close

dir

dirdeep

dirmany

dnotify

dup

fanotify

fcntl

fd-fork

fd-race

fiemap

file-ioctl

filename

flock

fsize

fstat

getdent

handle

lease

link

locka

lockf

lockmix

lockofd

mknod

quota

ramfs

rename

seal

statmount

symlink

touch

umask

umount

verity

xattr

🌐 Network

dccp

epoll

icmp-flood

netdev

netlink-task

rawpkt

rawsock

rawudp

sctp

sendfile

sock

sockabuse

sockdiag

sockfd

sockmany

tun

udp

udp-flood

🏭 Kernel (Process, Scheduling & Unsharing)

clone

cpu-sched

daemon

exit-group

nice

pidfd

prctl

prio-inv

pthread

ptrace

race-sched

resched

rlimit

schedmix

schedpolicy

session

switch

unshare

vforkmany

wait

workload

🔔 Kernel (Signals)

bad-altstack

sigabrt

sigchld

sighup

sigio

signal

signest

sigpending

sigpipe

sigq

sigrt

sigsuspend

sigtrap

sigvtalrm

sigxcpu

sigxfsz

📨 Kernel (IPC, Pipes & Semaphores)

binderfs

eventfd

fifo

msg

oom-pipe

pipeherd

sem

sem-sysv

⏰ Kernel (Timers & Clocks)

hrtimers

itimer

min-nanosleep

nanosleep

sleep

timer

timerfd

timermix

time-warp

🛂 Kernel (Syscalls & Security)

apparmor

cap

cgroup

getrandom

key

klog

landlock

personality

reboot

seccomp

set

softlockup

usersyscall

🔌 I/O & Peripherals

efivar

ioport

kvm

pty

rtc

smi

watchdog

🔬 Verification Enabled by --verify Option

These stressors will only perform verification checks when you explicitly add the --verify flag to your command.

🧠 CPU (General, Compute, Math & Sorting)

af-alg

bitonicsort

bsearch

bubblesort

cpu

dfp

fibsearch

fma

fp

hash

heapsort

hsearch

insertionsort

jpeg

judy

lsearch

matrix

matrix-3d

mergesort

qsort

radixsort

randlist

rotate

shellsort

str

tree

tsc

tsearch

vecfp

vecwide

wcs

zlib

🚦 CPU (Cache, Atomics & Mutex)

l1cache

prefetch

💾 Memory (RAM)

bigheap

malloc

memcpy

stream - Better throughput with less stressors

📄 Virtual Memory (VM) & Paging

mmap

mremap

pageswap

vm

vm-rw

💽 Storage I/O (Disk)

copy-file

fallocate

fpunch

hdd

readahead

seek

urandom

📁 Filesystem (Metadata & Ops)

dentry

inotify

metamix

sysfs

tmpfs

utime

🌐 Network

poll

sockpair

🏭 Kernel (Process, Scheduling & Unsharing)

affinity

exec

fork

spawn

vfork

yield

zombie

🔔 Kernel (Signals)

kill

sigbus

sigfd

sigfpe

sigill

sigsegv

📨 Kernel (IPC, Pipes & Semaphores)

futex

mq

pipe

⏰ Kernel (Timers & Clocks)

alarm

clock

🛂 Kernel (Syscalls & Security)

env

get

kcmp

sysinfo

Avoid these? 🚫 Verification Not Implemented

These stressors do not currently have a verification method.

🧠 CPU (General, Compute, Math & Sorting)

easy-opcode

fractal

ipsec-mb

monte-carlo

nop

opcode

plugin

prime

regex

🚦 CPU (Cache, Atomics & Mutex)

cache

flipflop

flushcache

icache

lockbus

membarrier

💾 Memory (RAM)

mcontend

memhotplug

memrate

memthrash

physmmap

pkey

secretmem

spinmem

📄 Virtual Memory (VM) & Paging

fault

idle-page

madvise

mlockmany

mmapcow

mmaprandom

mmaptorture

tlb-shootdown

vma

💽 Storage I/O (Disk)

dev

splice

📁 Filesystem (Metadata & Ops)

fd-abuse

filerace

inode-flags

open

procfs

unlink

🌐 Network

netlink-proc

ping-sock

🏭 Kernel (Process, Scheduling & Unsharing)

forkheavy

loadavg

resources

syncload

🔔 Kernel (Signals)

sigurg

📨 Kernel (IPC, Pipes & Semaphores)

ring-pipe

⏰ Kernel (Timers & Clocks)

cyclic

🛂 Kernel (Syscalls & Security)

bad-ioctl

dynlib

enosys

lsm

module

rseq

sysbadaddr

syscall

sysinval

uprobe

vdso

🔌 I/O & Peripherals

gpu

led

pci