Ok, so we're now using stress-ng 0.07.21 which resolved a lot of issues and have also adopted Colin's suggestions into our wrapper script to modify how stress-ng is being called and culled.
This seems to resolve the problems that led to this. ** Also affects: plainbox-provider-checkbox Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: plainbox-provider-checkbox Status: New => Fix Committed ** Changed in: plainbox-provider-checkbox Importance: Undecided => Critical ** Changed in: plainbox-provider-checkbox Assignee: (unassigned) => Mike Rushton (leftyfb) ** Changed in: plainbox-provider-checkbox Milestone: None => 0.36.0 -- 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 Power architecture for 16.04 Status in Provider for Plainbox - Checkbox: Fix Committed Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in linux source package in Xenial: Incomplete Status in linux source package in Yakkety: Incomplete 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/plainbox-provider-checkbox/+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