diff --git a/test/automation/src/electron.ts b/test/automation/src/electron.ts
index a13e3b1c040..ffde8728787 100644
--- a/test/automation/src/electron.ts
+++ b/test/automation/src/electron.ts
@@ -42,7 +42,11 @@ export async function resolveElectronConfiguration(options: LaunchOptions): Prom
 	}
 
 	if (process.platform === 'linux') {
-		args.push('--disable-gpu'); // Linux has trouble in VMs to render properly with GPU enabled
+		// --disable-dev-shm-usage: when run on docker containers where size of /dev/shm
+		// partition < 64MB which causes OOM failure for chromium compositor that uses
+		// this partition for shared memory.
+		// Refs https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/152143
+		args.push('--disable-dev-shm-usage');
 	}
 
 	if (remote) {