search for: oom_adj_save

...root at vicky:~# ps faux | grep 1574 root 1574 0.0 0.0 70488 3404 ? Ss 21:41 0:00 \_ sshd: root at pts/1 root at vicky:~# ps faux | grep "1568" root 1568 0.0 0.0 49168 1152 ? Ss 21:41 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd In sshd.c there seems to be: static int oom_adj_save = INT_MIN; root at courtney:~/openssh-5.5p1# grep -R "Set %s to %d" . ./openbsd-compat/port-linux.c: verbose("Set %s to %d", OOM_ADJ_PATH, oom_adj_save); Then I tried on a server with different network card hardware (as shown below), and got this from the logs: roo...

https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1470 Summary: adjust Linux out-of-memory killer to stop sshd being killed Classification: Unclassified Product: Portable OpenSSH Version: 5.0p1 Platform: All URL: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=34176 7 OS/Version: Linux