syslogd(8) with OOM Killer protection

[Marcelo Araujo]

On Jan 28, 2016 12:37 AM, "Warren Block" <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 27 Jan 2016, 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.
>
>
> Possibly simpler to provide a list in one setting than an individual
setting for each daemon.  With ideas from other posters:
>
>   oomprotect_daemons="crond syslogd"
>
>

Yes, it sounds more reasonable and easy to understand!

Gonna check what I can do with it.

Thanks everybody for the feedback!

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