Comment 3 for bug 1687353

The easiest way to reproduce it was in the game Starbound. Teleporting, quickly the computer would freeze. I could freeze the computer in seconds doing this.

While the 4.10 kernel available to install with linux-generic-hwe-16.04-edge has this bug, I believe this problem is corrected in the 4.11 kernel I downloaded at http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.11/

I was able to play for many hours without the problem since I installed the kernel version 4.11. There are change notes regarding ALSA on kernel.org, I believe they are related with the problem I was having.

Or I am being absurdly lucky or the bug was corrected on upstream.