Generate read/write/flush operation on hard disks.
Prerequisites
If you are not using our container images for the extension, stress-ng needs to be present.
Use Cases
Stress test the host 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?