Hi Christophe, any recent kernel will only accept values > -17 for oom_adj. So writing '-17' into oom_adj will only lead to an error, not to the desired behaviour. Patch is attached. Cheers, Hannes -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke hare@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH S390 & zSeries Maxfeldstraße 5 +49 911 74053 688 90409 Nürnberg http://www.suse.de