How to understand Stress-Ng Test Results on Debian?

Question

I have been troubleshooting an issue I have had with a old laptop, Acer Aspire 5745 with a Intel Core i3-370M processor. Currently running Debian with Raspbery Pi Desktop for the OS in hopes of the issue being related to software. Anyway, I ended up running stress-ng to test the processor's abilities but I can not seem to figure out if the results are good or bad. Using this specific command...

stress-ng --cpu 8--io 2 --timeout 30s --metrics

The results for the CPU were...

stress-ng: info: [5721] successful run completed in 30.15s

bogo ops  realtime  usr time  sys time  bogo ops/s   bogo ops/s
            (sec)     (sec)    (sec)    (real time)  (usr+sys time)
 10188    30.05     118.88     0.00      339.06      85.70

So how can I compare this data so that I may understand if these values reflect a good or bad result. I can not find any resources which can explain this to me.

stress-ng --sequential 2 --timeout 1m --metrics-brief

Also fun fact, tried using this command above as a second stress test and after a hour, I had to turn off the laptop.

Answer 1

Getting "good" or "bad" metrics arent the purpose of stress tests. Stress tests are used to stress the system so you can see how other applications and hardware deal with the load.