Cortisol

A .NET cross-platform CPU stress testing program for the command line.

Description

Cortisol (StressforWindows) is a CPU stress testing tool inspired by the Linux tool stress. The program has 2 stress tests, a prime number search similar to Prime95, and a usage % configurable resource consumption (using Stopwatch()) test.

Getting Started

Dependencies

.NET 6.0 Runtime(SDK to build)

Build

Build using Visual Studio (or other .NET IDE)
Build using dotnet build

Executing program

Run Cortisol.exe from the command line.

Arguments

  -u, --usage      Set the desired CPU usage% for the test. Does not apply to the Mersenne Prime test.

  -c, --threads    Set the desired amount of threads for the test to run on. 0 will run on all available threads.

  -d, --time       Set the desired time for the test to run. 0 will run until cancelled.

  -t, --temp       Display CPU temperature while test is running.

  -m, --memory     Consume the given (MB) amount of RAM

  --help           Display this help screen.

  --version        Display version information.

Version History

No versions published.

License

This project is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License - see the LICENSE.md file for details

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