syslogd(8) with OOM Killer protection

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 02:11:13AM -0500, Allan Jude wrote:
> On 2016-01-27 01:21, Marcelo Araujo wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> > 
> > I would like to know your opinion about this REVIEW[1].
> > The basic idea is protect by default the syslogd(8) against been killed by
> > OOM with an option to disable the protection.
> > 
> > Some people like the idea, other people would prefer something more global
> > where we can protect any daemon by the discretion of our choice.
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> > 
> > 
> > [1] https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4973
> > 
> > 
> > Best,
> > 
> 
> I do like the idea of generalizing it, say via rc.subr
> 
> So you can just do:
> 
> someapp_protect=YES (and maybe syslogd has this enabled by default in
> /etc/defaults/rc.conf) and it prefixes the start command with protect -i.
> 
I do support that idea, I think it is will be useful to more people.

Bapt
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