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From: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
To: Maximilian Mill <mill@in-medias-res.com>, 537859-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: [Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#537859: slapd: Please add support to
	set an oom_killer ignore
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On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 02:07:57PM +0200, Maximilian Mill wrote:
> i had some cases where slapd gets killed and other not needed processes were
> still active. It would be nice, if slapd gets some setting like ssh has:
> configurable oom_killer ignore in /etc/default/ssh.

> At the moment,  i just added one line in /etc/init.d/slapd :
> echo "-17" >> /proc/`cat $SLAPD_PIDFILE`/oom_adj
> This works for me, but its ugly if the package gets upgraded.
> Maybe integrate it in the daemon like ssh has.

I don't think this is a common enough use case to justify supporting it in
the package.  If your OOM killer is firing at all, you obviously have other
problems, far outweighing the occasional conffile prompt on upgrade.

You could also create this as an entirely separate init script, run after
slapd, to avoid the conffile problem.

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