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

Just paste this bad boy into the SSH or console of any server running linux. You can kill the processes manually, but I just shutdown the server when I'm done, quicker.

Edit: I have updated this script to now have a timer feature so that there is no need to kill the processes.

read -p "Please enter the number of minutes for test >" MINTEST && [[ $MINTEST == ?(-)+([0-9]) ]]; NCPU="$(grep -c ^processor /proc/cpuinfo)";  ((endtime=$(date +%s) + ($MINTEST*60))); NCPU=$((NCPU-1)); for ((i=1; i<=$NCPU; i++)); do while (($(date +%s) < $endtime)); do : ; done & done