GtkStressTesting (GST)

GST is a GTK system utility designed to stress and monitor various hardware components like CPU and RAM.

💡 Features

• Run different CPU and memory stress tests
• Run multi and single core benchmark
• Show Processor information (name, cores, threads, family, model, stepping, flags,bugs, etc)
• Show Processor's cache information
• Show Motherboard information (vendor, model, bios version, bios date, etc)
• Show RAM information (size, speed, rank, manufacturer, part number, etc)
• Show CPU usage (core %, user %, load avg, etc)
• Show Memory usage
• Show CPU's physical's core clock (current, min, max)
• Show Hardware monitor (info provided by sys/class/hwmon)

📦 How to get GST

Install from Flathub

This is the preferred way to get GST on any major distribution (Arch, Fedora, Linux Mint, openSUSE, Ubuntu, etc).

If you don't have Flatpak installed you can find step by step instructions here.

Make sure to have the Flathub remote added to the current user:

flatpak --user remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

Install

flatpak --user install flathub com.leinardi.gst

Run

flatpak run com.leinardi.gst

Distro specific packages

Arch Linux

Install the gst package from the AUR using your favourite helper, for example yay -S gst.

Fedora

Official repo: sudo dnf install gst

Install from source code

Build time dependencies

Distro	pkg-config	Python 3.6+	gobject-introspection	meson	ninja-build	appstream-util
Arch Linux	pkg-config	python	gobject-introspection	meson	ninja	appstream-glib
Fedora	pkgconf-pkg-config	python3	gobject-introspection-devel	meson	ninja-build	appstream-util
Ubuntu	pkg-config	python3	libgirepository1.0-dev	meson	ninja-build	appstream-util

Run time dependencies

Distro	Python 3.6+	pip	gobject-introspection	lm-sensors	stress-ng	dmidecode
Arch Linux	python	python-pip	gobject-introspection	lm-sensors	stress-ng	dmidecode
Fedora	python3	python3-pip	gobject-introspection-devel	lm-sensors	stress-ng	dmidecode
Ubuntu	python3	python3-pip	libgirepository1.0-dev	lm-sensors	stress-ng	dmidecode

plus all the Python dependencies listed in requirements.txt

Clone project and install

If you have not installed GST yet:

git clone --recurse-submodules -j4 https://gitlab.com/leinardi/gst.git
cd gst
git checkout release
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
meson . build --prefix /usr
ninja -v -C build
ninja -v -C build install

Update old installation

If you installed GST from source code previously and you want to update it:

cd gst
git fetch
git checkout release
git reset --hard origin/release
git submodule init
git submodule update
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
meson . build --prefix /usr
ninja -v -C build
ninja -v -C build install

Run

Once installed, to start it you can simply execute on a terminal:

gst

ℹ️ TODO

• Preselect first used RAM bank
• Add RAM specific stress tests
• Get a better icon

⌨️ Command line options

Parameter	Description	Source	Flatpak
-v, --version	Show the app version	x	x
--debug	Show debug messages	x	x
--autostart-on	Enable automatic start of the app on login	x
--autostart-off	Disable automatic start of the app on login	x

🖥️ Build, install and run with Flatpak

If you don't have Flatpak installed you can find step by step instructions here.

Make sure to have the Flathub remote added to the current user:

flatpak --user remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

Clone the repo

git clone --recurse-submodules -j4 https://gitlab.com/leinardi/gst.git

It is possible to build the local source or the remote one (the same that Flathub uses)

Local repository

./build.sh --flatpak-local --flatpak-install

Remote repository

./build.sh --flatpak-remote --flatpak-install

Run

flatpak run com.leinardi.gst --debug

❓ FAQ

The Flatpak version of GST is not using my theme, how can I fix it?

To fix this issue install a Gtk theme from Flathub. This way, Flatpak applications will automatically pick the installed Gtk theme and use that instead of Adwaita.

Use this command to get a list of all the available Gtk themes on Flathub:

flatpak --user remote-ls flathub | grep org.gtk.Gtk3theme

And then just install your preferred theme. For example, to install Yaru:

flatpak install flathub org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Yaru

Where are the settings and profiles stored on the filesystem?

Installation type	Location
Flatpak	$HOME/.var/app/com.leinardi.gst/
Source code	$XDG_CONFIG_HOME (usually $HOME/.config/gst)

💚 How to help the project

Discord server

If you want to help testing or developing it would be easier to get in touch using the discord server of the project: https://discord.gg/wjBH8w3
Just write a message on the general channel saying how you want to help (test, dev, etc) and quoting @leinardi. If you don't use discor but still want to help just open a new issue here.

Can I support this project some other way?

Something simple that everyone can do is to star it on both GitLab and GitHub. Feedback is always welcome: if you found a bug or would like to suggest a feature, feel free to open an issue on the issue tracker.

ℹ️ Acknowledgements

Thanks to:

• Colin Ian King for the stress-ng CLI tool
• @999eagle for maintaining the AUR package
• @tim74 for maintaining the Fedora package
• all the people that helped testing and reported bugs

📰 Media coverage

• GamingOnLinux 🇬🇧
• OMG! Ubuntu! 🇬 🇬🇧
• lffl 🇮🇹
• Świat Linuksa 📺 🇵🇱
• Manuel Cabrera Caballero 📺 🇪🇸
• Diolinux 🇧🇷
• Cerebrux 🇬🇷

📝 License

This file is part of gst.

Copyright (c) 2020 Roberto Leinardi

gst is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

gst is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with gst.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.