Stress-ng is a benchmarking tool to exercise multiple computer subsystems such as CPU, memory, IO and networking. This salt formula can be used to install it from the package repository or from source, and execute stress-ng on the provided job file(s).

See the full Salt Formulas installation and usage instructions here.

• stressng.install - to install stressng (from the OS packages - the default, or from source if the pillar stress:lookup:install_from_source is set). For example:

salt \* state.apply stressng.install pillar='{"stressng":{"lookup": {"install_from_source": True}}}'

You can also set the stress-ng version via a lookup pillar stressng_source_url; the stress-ng source archives are available here.

• stressng.execute - run stress-ng with the job-file(s) specified in the pillar. The job file(s) is(are) created and stored in the /files subfolder. Each job file will be executed sequentially.

The output directory (out_dir) is specified in the pillar. The formula will create a subdirectory under the out_dir folder whose name will correspond to the job-file name. All the stress-ng results for that job file will be stored in this subdirectory. The job file will also be stored in this subdirectory under the filename job.stress.

Look at the pillar.example file for more examples.