Linux: How to put a load on system memory?

Question

I\'m working on a small function, that gives my users a picture of how occupied the CPU is.

I\'m using cat /proc/loadavg, which returns the well known 3 num

Answer 1

mark@localhost$ time pi 1048576 | egrep '.*total$'

Is a simple benchmarking command that will give your cpu a rousting, post your times :D