[PATCH 4/4] check: back off the OOM score adjustment to -500

Darrick J. Wong
2021-07-28T00:10:01Z

Dave Chinner complained that fstests really shouldn't be running at
-1000 oom score adjustment because that makes it more "important" than
certain system daemons (e.g. journald, udev). That's true, so increase
it to -500.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
---
check | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/check b/check
index 5d71b74c..e493ca11 100755
--- a/check
+++ b/check
@@ -564,7 +564,7 @@ OOM_SCORE_ADJ="/proc/self/oom_score_adj"
function _adjust_oom_score() {
test -w "${OOM_SCORE_ADJ}" && echo "$1" > "${OOM_SCORE_ADJ}"
}
-_adjust_oom_score -1000
+_adjust_oom_score -500

# ...and make the tests themselves somewhat more attractive to it, so that if
# the system runs out of memory it'll be the test that gets killed and not the