On 2017-08-22 20:51:10 +0200, Arthur de Jong wrote: > On Tue, 2017-08-22 at 00:52 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Perhaps not unique to nslcd, but the consequences are the worst when > > nslcd is killed: one can no longer access to the machine. > > That is true. It is probably also true for systemd, udev and similar > processes but some of these also seem to tweak oom priority.
Note that contrary to nslcd, these processes run as root, so that even if they do nothing special, they are less likely to be killed. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)