A quick python script to eat up some cpu.<\/p>\n
Run with this command to use more cores:<\/p>\n
powershell: linux: python:<\/p>\n\n\n def stress_test_pi(): print(“Starting Pi Stress Test… Press Ctrl+C to stop.”)<\/p>\n\n\n\n pi = Decimal(0) try: # Print every 1000th iteration to avoid I\/O bottlenecks k += 1 if __name__ == “__main__”: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A quick python script to eat up some cpu.<\/p>\n Run with this command to use more cores:<\/p>\n powershell: foreach ($i in 1..8) { Start-Job { python your_script.name.py } }<\/p>\n linux:for i in {1..8}; do python3 your_script_name.py & done<\/p>\n python:<\/p>\n import sys from decimal import Decimal, getcontext <\/p>\n import sysfrom decimal import Decimal, getcontext<\/p>\n def stress_test_pi():# Set […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":685,"href":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions\/685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nforeach ($i in 1..8) { Start-Job { python your_script.name.py } }<\/code><\/p>\nfor i in {1..8}; do python3 your_script_name.py & done<\/code><\/p>\nimport sys\nfrom decimal import Decimal, getcontext<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nimport sys
from decimal import Decimal, getcontext<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n
# Set precision very high to force heavy CPU math
# Increase this number for more RAM usage + CPU load
getcontext().prec = 10000<\/p>\n\n\n\n
k = 0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
while True:
# Using Nilakantha Series for faster convergence\/heavy math
# Formula: 3 + 4\/(2*3*4) – 4\/(4*5*6) + 4\/(6*7*8)…
if k == 0:
pi = Decimal(3)
else:
d = Decimal(2 * k)
term = Decimal(4) \/ (d * (d + 1) * (d + 2))
if k % 2 == 1:
pi += term
else:
pi -= term<\/p>\n\n\n\n
if k % 1000 == 0:
sys.stdout.write(f”\\rCalculated {k} terms… Current Pi: {str(pi)[:50]}…”)
sys.stdout.flush()<\/p>\n\n\n\n
except KeyboardInterrupt:
print(“\\n\\nTest stopped by user.”)
print(f”Final terms calculated: {k}”)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
stress_test_pi()<\/p>\n\n\n\n