Stressing libreelec via tools in ssh (or somewhere in Kodi)

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    Apologies if this is posted in the wrong location, this is my first post here. Please feel free to move it to wherever it should go.

    I have Libreelec 12.0.1 running on a Raspberry Pi 4. I want to run a stress test, to test out the fan curves of a new case I've just acquired and the overclocking settings I've tried to enable.

    Try as I might, I cannot find any information anywhere about what tool I could run to stress my device, and maybe this comes down to Libreelec's stripped-down OS?

    I think I want to run stress-ng, but my terminal tells me it isn't installed and I do not know how to add it via terminal (e.g. no apt or apt-get available). I do have the system-tools Addon installed in Kodi, but I don't know how to access the version of stress-ng that is apparently installed with it, either inside of Kodi or via an ssh terminal.

    The reason I'm attempting all this via terminal is because I'm already using watch -n 1 vcgencmd measure_temp to monitor its temp.

    My goal is to stress my CPU cores so I can confirm the overclock setting and fan curves, so if someone thinks there's a better way to go about this in my case, I'd very much appreciate the advice.

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    Install the add-on and then exit/reconnect over SSH and the stress-ng binary should be in the default $PATH.

    Or run openssl speed -multi 4 .. that usually does the job.

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    Thank you! openssl speed -multi 4 worked for me!

    But for information (in case this is an actual issue I've found), no combination of ssh disconnecting/reconnecting, Addon uninstalling/installing, and rebooting/powering completely off and then back on, has gotten stress-ng to be accessible from the default $PATH.

    I did go looking through the file structure and found a file named "stress-ng" in /storage/.kodi/addons/virtual.system-tools/bin/, but relocating to this directory and then running it turned up the error: line 0: syntax error: unexpected word (expecting ")"). I have no idea if this means anything though, because obviously this isn't the correct way to run stress-ng, but just in case it means something, I thought I'd report it here.

    Anyway, thank you for your help!

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    To update after my last response: there was definitely something wrong with my installation. An update of PINN Lite failed, which led me to a required full reformatting and reinstall, and after the reinstall, I have no trouble using stress-ng in my terminal. There are no remaining mysteries with my circumstances.