Best Answer: How Can I Produce High Cpu Load on Linux?

How do I get 100 CPU usage on Linux?

To create a 100% CPU load on your Linux PC, do the following.

1. Open your favorite terminal app. Mine is xfce4-terminal.
2. Identify how many cores and threads your CPU has. You can get detailed CPU info with the following command: cat /proc/cpuinfo. …
3. Next, execute the following command as root: # yes > /dev/null &

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What causes high CPU load Linux?

More often than not, when you have CPU-bound load, it’s due to a process run by a user on the system, such as Apache, MySQL or maybe a shell script. If this percentage is high, a user process such as those is a likely cause of the load.