Hi
I've just read the kernel documentation for "oom_adj"
(filesytems/proc.txt) :
2.12 /proc/<pid>/oom_adj - Adjust the oom-killer score
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This file can be used to adjust the score used to select which processes
should be killed in an out-of-memory situation. Giving it a high
score will
increase the likelihood of this process being killed by the
oom-killer. Valid
values are in the range -16 to +15, plus the special value -17, which
disables
oom-killing altogether for this process.
So I think I can ignore these errors.
All the best,
Declan
Declan Mullen wrote:
Hi
When I ssh into my Linux server, the login succeeds but I notice that
I get the following type of entry appended to the auth.log :
Jan 26 17:10:45 maxv1 sshd[32624]: error writing
/proc/self/oom_adj: Permission denied
What are the implications of the sshd not being able to write to the
oom_adj ? Ie Is this error significant or should I just ignore it ?
The sshd's write is failing because the server I'm logging into is a
VServer guest/virtual server, and the VServer virtualisation
technology places restrictions on what can be written to the /proc
filesystem from within the guest.
The guest server OS is Debian Lenny and the sshd versions is
"1:5.1p1-5". Within the sshd_config Privilege Separation is turned on.
The host server's kernel is Lenny's "linux-source-2.6.26" (version
"2.6.26-13") with Lenny's vserver patches applied from
"linux-patch-debian-2.6.26" (version "2.6.26-13"). The host's
util-vserver package is version "0.30.216~r2772-6". The host's
"vserver-debiantools" package is version "0.6.3".
Many thanks,
Declan
