Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)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