Re: Setting oom_adj on linux? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Setting oom_adj on linux?
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Msg-id 11220.1262979905@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Setting oom_adj on linux?  (Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Setting oom_adj on linux?  (Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com>)
Re: Setting oom_adj on linux?  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
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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


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