cpu and memroy

[V S Chakravarthi]

hi,

i would like to simulate 99% cpu and memory utilization on my linux server. is there any software to do this?

regards
chakri

[Rick Garland]

Don't know about 99% but here is 100%

while :
do
:
done

[Vitaly Karasik_1]

see first three links http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=stress+linux

[Ivan Ferreira]

The "yes" command will eat up all your cpu.

You can use a backup command, like tar, star, cpio, dd to use the system memory. See also:

http://people.redhat.com/dledford/memtest.html