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

To enhance dimba's answer and provide something more pluggable (because i needed something similar). I have written the following using the dd load-up concept :D

It will check current cores, and create that many dd threads. Start and End core load with Enter

#!/bin/bash

load_dd() {
    dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null
}

fulload() {
    unset LOAD_ME_UP_SCOTTY
    export cores="$(grep proc /proc/cpuinfo -c)"
    for i in $( seq 1 $( expr $cores - 1 ) )
      do
    export LOAD_ME_UP_SCOTTY="${LOAD_ME_UP_SCOTTY}$(echo 'load_dd | ')"
  done
        export LOAD_ME_UP_SCOTTY="${LOAD_ME_UP_SCOTTY}$(echo 'load_dd &')"
    eval ${LOAD_ME_UP_SCOTTY}
}

echo press return to begin and stop fullload of cores
  read
  fulload
  read
  killall -9 dd