Re: Any particular reason we don't have sshd oomprotected by default?

From: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert_at_cschubert.com>
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2023 19:59:59 UTC
In message <C31C649C-049E-487F-9ADB-C8B3A78C4020@freebsd.org>, Philip Paeps 
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> On 2023-11-09 16:09:00 (+0800), Robert Clausecker wrote:
> > I encountered the same issue a while ago, leaving my system in a
> > vegetative state.  I would propose to add syslogd and cron to the
> > list.  Syslogd because when it dies and you don't notice, you may go 
> > for
> > a long time without syslogs, cron because a dead cron means no
> > housekeeping tasks happen, including some which the administrator may
> > have intended to fix an issue causing an OOM condition (e.g.
> > periodically restarting services with known memory leaks or cleaning
> > tmpfs-based file systems).
>
> In my experience, cron is more often the cause of an OOM condition than 
> a help to making it stop. :-)

Would that be cron or something that cron has started?


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