mmtests/stressng-zombie

stress-ng zombie stressor exercising zombie process creation and reaping paths.

Benchmark Profile

  • Type: Micro

  • Kernel subsystem: Process exit, task accounting, scheduler cleanup

  • Coverage: Directly measured

  • Topology: Single role: executer

Overview

Runs the stress-ng zombie stressor through mmtests to exercise creation and cleanup of zombie processes. Sensitive to process exit, parent/child task accounting, and scheduler cleanup paths.

Fastpath Parameters

Name

Description

config-base

Base mmtests configuration file.

config

Additional mmtests configuration overrides, including STRESSNG_ITERATIONS.

performance-governor

Whether to request the performance CPU governor before running the mmtests workload.

Result Classes

Result class names follow stress-ng mmtests conventions and encode the reported zombie process handling metric.

Fastpath Metadata

Field

Value

Suite

mmtests

Name

stressng-zombie

Type

stress

Container Image

registry.gitlab.arm.com/tooling/fastpath/containers/mmtests:v1.1

Documentation Path

documentation/user-guide/benchmarkcatalog/mmtests-stressng-zombie.rst

Documentation URL

https://fastpath.docs.arm.com/user-guide/benchmarkcatalog/mmtests-stressng-zombie.html