See the INSTALL file for generic installation instructions. The quick version is:
./configure && make && sudo make install
You can see the program's usage statement by invoking it with --help. A typical invocation is:
stress --cpu 8 --io 4 --vm 2 --vm-bytes 128M --timeout 10s
A user manual is available:
info stress
The project home page is:
http://weather.ou.edu/~apw/projects/stress/
This program works really well for me, but it might not have some of the
features that you want. If you would like, please extend the code and send
me the patch. Please use the context diff format. That is: save the
original program as stress.c.orig, then make and test your desired changes
to stress.c, then run diff -u stress.c.orig stress.c to produce a context
diff. Enjoy the program :-)
Amos Waterland apw@rossby.metr.ou.edu Norman, Oklahoma 27 Nov 2001