[linux] How to create a CPU spike with a bash command

Although I'm late to the party, this post is among the top results in the google search "generate load in linux".

The result marked as solution could be used to generate a system load, i'm preferring to use sha1sum /dev/zero to impose a load on a cpu-core.

The idea is to calculate a hash sum from an infinite datastream (eg. /dev/zero, /dev/urandom, ...) this process will try to max out a cpu-core until the process is aborted. To generate a load for more cores, multiple commands can be piped together.

eg. generate a 2 core load: sha1sum /dev/zero | sha1sum /dev/zero

Examples related to linux

grep's at sign caught as whitespace How to prevent Google Colab from disconnecting? "E: Unable to locate package python-pip" on Ubuntu 18.04 How to upgrade Python version to 3.7? Install Qt on Ubuntu Get first line of a shell command's output Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:/var/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running? Run bash command on jenkins pipeline How to uninstall an older PHP version from centOS7 How to update-alternatives to Python 3 without breaking apt?

Examples related to bash

Comparing a variable with a string python not working when redirecting from bash script Zipping a file in bash fails How do I prevent Conda from activating the base environment by default? Get first line of a shell command's output Fixing a systemd service 203/EXEC failure (no such file or directory) /bin/sh: apt-get: not found VSCode Change Default Terminal Run bash command on jenkins pipeline How to check if the docker engine and a docker container are running? How to switch Python versions in Terminal?

Examples related to load

jQuery load first 3 elements, click "load more" to display next 5 elements Javascript: Load an Image from url and display Selenium wait until document is ready Calculating Page Load Time In JavaScript File loading by getClass().getResource() How do I load an url in iframe with Jquery Can I get JSON to load into an OrderedDict? changing source on html5 video tag Load content of a div on another page JavaScript load a page on button click

Examples related to cpu

Your CPU supports instructions that this TensorFlow binary was not compiled to use: AVX AVX2 Difference between core and processor How to enable support of CPU virtualization on Macbook Pro? How to get overall CPU usage (e.g. 57%) on Linux How to obtain the number of CPUs/cores in Linux from the command line? How to create a CPU spike with a bash command How to fast get Hardware-ID in C#? Optimal number of threads per core Linux Process States How to write super-fast file-streaming code in C#?