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

Message ID 162743099972.3427426.5759542449674461731.stgit@magnolia (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series fstests: random fixes | expand

Commit Message

Darrick J. Wong July 28, 2021, 12:09 a.m. UTC 
From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>

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>
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 check |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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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