Windows - BeatUp-Windows - stress memory and cpu's

  • Article

# BeatUp-Windows.ps1
#

$psProcess = gps -id $PID
$psInstances = (gps -Name $psProcess.name).count
if ($psInstances -gt 1) {
$psName = "{0}#{1}" -f $psProcess.name,$($psInstances - 1)
}
else {
$psName = $psProcess.name
}

# RAM in box
$box=get-WMIobject Win32_ComputerSystem
$Global:physMB=$box.TotalPhysicalMemory / 1024 /1024

#####################
# perfmon counters
$Global:psPerfCPU = new-object System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter("Processor","% Processor Time","_Total")
$Global:psPerfMEM = new-object System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter("Memory","Available Mbytes")
$psPerfCPU.NextValue() | Out-Null
$psPerfMEM.NextValue() | Out-Null

# timer
$Global:psTimer   = New-Object System.Timers.Timer
$psTimer.Interval = 1500

# every timer interval, update the CMD shell window with RAM and CPU info.
#
Register-ObjectEvent -InputObject $psTimer -EventName Elapsed -Action {
[int]$ram = $physMB - $psPerfMEM.NextValue()
[int]$cpu = $psPerfCPU.NextValue()
$Host.ui.rawui.WindowTitle = "$($CurrentUser.Name) $($Host.Name) $($Host.Version) | $((get-location).ProviderPath) | RAM used: $ram MB CPU: $cpu%"
} | Out-Null
$psTimer.start()

# So first task - let's now go soak up all available RAM
#####################
$a = "a" * 256MB
$growArray = @()
$growArray += $a
# leave 512Mb for the OS to survive.
$HEADROOM=512
$bigArray = @()
$ram = $physMB - $psPerfMEM.NextValue()
$MAXRAM=$physMB - $HEADROOM
$k=0
while ($ram -lt $MAXRAM) {
$bigArray += ,@($k,$growArray)
$k += 1
$growArray += $a
$ram = $physMB - $psPerfMEM.NextValue()
}
#####################
# and now release it all.
$bigArray.clear()
remove-variable bigArray
$growArray.clear()
remove-variable growArray
[System.GC]::Collect()
#####################

#
# and now launch N powershell processes to saturate all CPU's.
#
$SCRIPT="foreach (`$n in 1..2147483647) {`$r=1; foreach (`$x in 1..2147483647) {`$r = `$r * `$x}; `$r }"
$si = new-object System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo
$si.FileName = "PowerShell.EXE"
$si.Arguments = $SCRIPT

$cpus=$env:NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS
for ($cpu = 0; $cpu -lt $cpus; $cpu++) {
$proc = [System.Diagnostics.Process]::Start($si)
}

Comments

  • Anonymous
    July 12, 2017
    Thanks LukeDie for the company