Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:01:22 -0400 | Subject | How to immunize a process from the OOM Killer | From | Juan Miscaro <> |
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Hi, I'm running 2.6.24 on Ubuntu.
I've got a OOM Killer gone wild. I have plenty of free memory (over 40 GB) and lots of processes are being murdered. Anyway, I would like to first prevent a few processes from being killed in the hopes of buying me time (users can work) to discover why the killer is being invoked in the first place.
I've read in a few places [1] that in order to immunize a process you need to modify the value of /proc/PID/oom_adj. Thing is, such files cannot be edited directly. How do I achieve my goal?
Thank you,
-- jm
[1] http://linux-mm.org/OOM_Killer http://lwn.net/Articles/317814/
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