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Re: Setting oom_adj on linux?

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-01-08T19:45:05Z
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Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com> writes:
> Sure this was openssh? I just looked through the entire cvs history
> for opensshp and found 0 references to 'oom' let alone 'oom_adj'.
> Maybe something distro specific?

FWIW, I see no evidence that sshd on Fedora does anything to change its
oom score --- the oom_adj file reads as zero for both the parent daemon
and its children.  Kinda scary to realize the OOM killer could easily
lock me out of boxes I run headless.

			regards, tom lane