I'm going to mark this as fixed with respect to stress-ng changes + disabling this in the tests. Running this stressor as root will cause issues; this is a know problem with running root privileged memory sucking stressors.
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released -- 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/1692668 Title: stress-ng sockfd stressor kills 4.11 kernels Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Seen in ADT on i386, though I've also reproduced in an amd64 vm. Running the following appears to use up all RAM in the system: # stress-ng -v -t 10 --sockfd 4 --ignite-cpu --syslog --verbose --verify To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1692668/+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