In Lab – Auto-Scale Experiment (Chapter 6.17) Scott introduces a cool little unix utility called ‘stress’ to simulated load. My issue is that I am unable to use that command has he does in the lab (by running ‘stress –cpu 8 –timeout 15s’ as ec2-user). when I attempt, I get "stress: command not found". I’ve searched around and have attempted installing stress and stress-ng which also have not been successful:
–[ec2-user@ip-172-31-65-196 ~]$ sudo yum install stress
–Loaded plugins: extras_suggestions, langpacks, priorities, update-motd
–amzn2-core | 3.7 kB 00:00:00
–No package stress available.
I’ve attempted this within the ACG Cloud Sandbox as well as the Cloud Server (Amazon Linux 2 distribution)
am I the only one facing this issue? any help would be greatly appreciated
1 Answers
Figured it out! In case you have the same issue, it was addressed [here](Figured it out! In case you have the same issue, it was addressed here: https://acloud.guru/forums/aws-certified-solutions-architect-associate/discussion/-L2piWxIn59Se-kF7x3M/in-the-new-aws-linux-2-stress-isnt-available?answer=-LhanRCdVeJ2uKMaUc-8)
To get through this lab, you can update the bootstrap script to be:
#!/bin/bash yum update -y amazon-linux-extras install epel yum install stress -y /usr/bin/stress --cpu 8 --timeout 10m