利用这里的想法，创建的代码在设定的持续时间后自动退出，不需要杀死进程

#!/bin/bash
echo "Usage : ./killproc_ds.sh 6 60  (6 threads for 60 secs)"

# Define variables
NUM_PROCS=${1:-6} #How much scaling you want to do
duration=${2:-20}    # seconds

function infinite_loop {
endtime=$(($(date +%s) + $duration))
while (($(date +%s) < $endtime)); do
    #echo $(date +%s)
    echo $((13**99)) 1>/dev/null 2>&1
    $(dd if=/dev/urandom count=10000 status=none| bzip2 -9 >> /dev/null) 2>&1 >&/dev/null
done
echo "Done Stressing the system - for thread $1"
}


echo Running for duration $duration secs, spawning $NUM_PROCS threads in background
for i in `seq ${NUM_PROCS}` ;
do
# Put an infinite loop
    infinite_loop $i  &
done

使用这里提到的例子，以及IRC的帮助，我开发了自己的CPU压力测试脚本。它使用每个线程一个子shell和无限循环技术。您还可以交互地指定线程数和时间量。

#!/bin/bash
# Simple CPU stress test script

# Read the user's input
echo -n "Number of CPU threads to test: "
read cpu_threads
echo -n "Duration of the test (in seconds): "
read cpu_time

# Run an endless loop on each thread to generate 100% CPU
echo -e "\E[32mStressing ${cpu_threads} threads for ${cpu_time} seconds...\E[37m"
for i in $(seq ${cpu_threads}); do
    let thread=${i}-1
    (taskset -cp ${thread} $BASHPID; while true; do true; done) &
done

# Once the time runs out, kill all of the loops
sleep ${cpu_time}
echo -e "\E[32mStressing complete.\E[37m"
kill 0

#!/bin/bash
duration=120    # seconds
instances=4     # cpus
endtime=$(($(date +%s) + $duration))
for ((i=0; i<instances; i++))
do
    while (($(date +%s) < $endtime)); do :; done &
done

一个核心(不调用外部进程):

while true; do true; done

两个核心:

while true; do /bin/true; done

后者只会让我的两个都达到50%…

这将使两者都达到100%:

while true; do echo; done

我会把它分成两个脚本:

infinite_loop。bash:

#!/bin/bash
while [ 1 ] ; do
    # Force some computation even if it is useless to actually work the CPU
    echo $((13**99)) 1>/dev/null 2>&1
done

cpu_spike。bash:

#!/bin/bash
# Either use environment variables for NUM_CPU and DURATION, or define them here
for i in `seq ${NUM_CPU}` : do
    # Put an infinite loop on each CPU
    infinite_loop.bash &
done

# Wait DURATION seconds then stop the loops and quit
sleep ${DURATION}
killall infinite_loop.bash

如果你不想安装额外的软件，你可以使用自动利用所有CPU内核的压缩工具。例如，xz:

 cat /dev/zero | xz -T0 > /dev/null

这将从/dev/zero中获取无限的虚拟数据流，并使用系统中所有可用的内核对其进行压缩。