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Disable the oom killer on linux
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Disable the oom killer
disable oom-killer
Run as root or add to script - for passenger
for pid in $(pidof PassengerNginxHelperServer) ; do echo "disabling oom on pid $pid"; echo -17 | tee /proc/$pid/oom_adj > /dev/null; done
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