blade create mem load --mode ram is unstable

[anxvi]

We use chaosblade for chaos engineering in a big company, version 1.4.0, and that's what we discovered:

Although we specify the low rate (1-16 MB/s) on high loads (above 80% RAM), the blade immediately reaches the 99% load and the process is killed. The flag --avoid-being-killed keeps it alive just 2-3 seconds more.

What we are aiming to achieve is having a stable high load at 95 and 100%. We guess that the rates are somehow being ignored.

Have you ever come up with this issue before? How can we fix this? The status is fine but ps aux shows the proccess terminates very quickly.

[xcaspar]

Please provide the linux system and kernel version. The avoid-being-killed parameter works on some systems, some doesn't

[anxvi]

Please provide the linux system and kernel version. The avoid-being-killed parameter works on some systems, some doesn't

OS is RHEL Server 7.9 and Kernel version is Linux 3.10.0-1160.42.2.e17.x86_64

[anxvi]

Please provide the linux system and kernel version. The avoid-being-killed parameter works on some systems, some doesn't

By the way, we checked through ps aux, the parameter actually escalates the priority of the process so it lasts a little longer than usually but still gets killed

[imooni]

Then it's gone?

[anxvi]

Then it's gone?

No, it's not