Given that, I'm marking the kernel tasks as invalid as this appears to
be stress-ng being over aggressive.

MAAS deployments (and I presume server installs in general) only provide
about 4 - 8GB swap max in a swap file created in the root filesystem (no
swap partition anymore).

It is not reasonable to create, IMO, 100GB swap files just to be sure we
don't accidentally trip the OOMKiller when running memory tests.

Also, the ratio seems to be variable. On my amd64 system, the swap
consumed was 5x the amount of installed RAM.  On the ppc64le system, the
amount was just shy of 2x the amount of physical RAM (this is also a
NUMA capable system, so maybe that's a contributing factor, beyond the
differences in how each arch handles memory, which I freely admit to not
understanding well.

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  stress-ng triggering oomkiller running brk and stack stressors on all
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