Stress IO

Attack

Generate read/write operation on hard disks.

Targets:

Containers

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Stress IO

Generate read/write operation on hard disks.

Attack

Targets:

Containers

Install now

Stress IO

Attack

Generate read/write operation on hard disks.

Targets:

Containers

Install now

Stress IO

Generate read/write operation on hard disks.

Attack

Targets:

Containers

Install now

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Introduction

Generate read/write/flush operation on disks.

Usage

The resources on a host are shared between containers. Running a resource attack for a container is executed in the containers cgroup and namespace, but might affect the host's resources and all containers running on it.

Use Cases

Stress test the container resources

Parameters

Parameter	Description	Default
Mode	Define the operational mode. The attack can stress io either by just flushing disk caches calling `sync()` and/or continually reading and writings temporary files to disk.	read_write_and_flush
Duration	How long should IO be consumed?	30s
Workers	How many workers should continually write, read and remove temporary files? (0 = 1 per core)	1
Path	Path where the IO should be inflicted	/
MBytes to write	How many megabytes should be written per stress operation?	1024