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Date:      Thu, 09 Nov 2023 19:20:30 +0800
From:      Philip Paeps <philip@freebsd.org>
To:        Robert Clausecker <fuz@fuz.su>
Cc:        Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Any particular reason we don't have sshd oomprotected by default?
Message-ID:  <C31C649C-049E-487F-9ADB-C8B3A78C4020@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <ZUyTnDAJ3HOppG8h@fuz.su>
References:  <8b9484ba83e373ece0e322e14c924da6@Leidinger.net> <ZUyTnDAJ3HOppG8h@fuz.su>

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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. :-)

Philip

-- 
Philip Paeps
Senior Reality Engineer
Alternative Enterprises



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