How to create a CPU spike with a bash command

Question

I want to create a near 100% load on a Linux machine. It\'s quad core system and I want all cores going full speed. Ideally, the CPU load would last a designated amount of

Answer 1

One core (doesn't invoke external process):

while true; do true; done

Two cores:

while true; do /bin/true; done

The latter only makes both of mine go to ~50% though...

This one will make both go to 100%:

while true; do echo; done