stress test application for simulating high load situations

 Stressful Application Test (or stressapptest, its unix name) tries to maximize
 randomized traffic to memory from processor and I/O, with the intent of
 creating a realistic high load situation in order to test the existing hardware
 devices in a computer.
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 Stressapptest may be used for various purposes:
  * stress test
  * hardware qualification and debugging
  * memory interface test
  * disk testing