I am unable to reproduce the failure either, but your system with 32G and 128 threads seems like the test would start 128 hogs each hogging up 32GB. How much swap do you have on them? Could you post the dmesg to see what failed and the logs around it? It looks like the stack stressor failed.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1573062 Title: memory_stress_ng failing for IBM Power S812LC(TN71-BP012) for 16.04 Status in linux package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in linux source package in Xenial: In Progress Status in linux source package in Yakkety: In Progress Bug description: memory_stress_ng, as part of server certification is failing for IBM Power S812LC(TN71-BP012) in bare metal mode. Failing in this case is defined by the test locking up the server in an unrecoverable state which only a reboot will fix. I will be attaching screen and kern logs for the failures and a successful run on 14.04 on the same server. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1573062/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp