How the Linux OOM Killer Chooses, and Why It Picked Your App
Under memory pressure the kernel kills one process and not another, and it is not random. The oom score is a small arithmetic formula you can read, tune and…
| oom_score_adj | Effect |
|---|---|
| -1000 | Completely exempt from being killed |
| negative | Protected, used for things like sshd |
| 0 | Default, score is purely memory based |
| positive | Penalised, used to mark sacrificial processes |
Published on debugly.dev by Rohit Bhadani | Founder of Krova Cloud