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authorTobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>2023-11-19 01:00:00 +0100
committerTobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>2023-12-10 01:00:00 +0100
commitd993ed43b2bae8717437aa27d9d33fd223a6411f (patch)
treeaf1b699abfe93a7f1d6c6565c8cd0512f0763e32 /nix
parent38035705ed29206eb9e9f774b9d1e98c9be53a16 (diff)
downloadguix-d993ed43b2bae8717437aa27d9d33fd223a6411f.tar.gz
daemon: Sacrifice builders on OOM.
* nix/libstore/build.cc (DerivationGoal::runChild):
Maximise our OOM score adjustment.

Change-Id: I418c763b499ca16e1ffe3c6033319112b9744f51
Diffstat (limited to 'nix')
-rw-r--r--nix/libstore/build.cc6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/nix/libstore/build.cc b/nix/libstore/build.cc
index e8259aa4e8..54555b92d7 100644
--- a/nix/libstore/build.cc
+++ b/nix/libstore/build.cc
@@ -2154,6 +2154,12 @@ void DerivationGoal::runChild()
            determinism. */
         int cur = personality(0xffffffff);
         if (cur != -1) personality(cur | ADDR_NO_RANDOMIZE);
+
+	/* Ask the kernel to eagerly kill us & our children if it runs out of
+	   memory, regardless of blame, to preserve ‘real’ user data & state. */
+	try {
+	    writeFile("/proc/self/oom_score_adj", "1000"); // 100%
+	} catch (...) { ignoreException(); }
 #endif
 
         /* Fill in the environment. */