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