earlyoom now works on reboots (solana-labs#6841)

mvines · Nov 8, 2019 · 151adab · 151adab
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diff --git a/net/scripts/install-earlyoom.sh b/net/scripts/install-earlyoom.sh
@@ -7,9 +7,10 @@ set -ex
 [[ $(uname) = Linux ]] || exit 1
 [[ $USER = root ]] || exit 1
 
-# 64 - enable signalling of processes (term, kill, oom-kill)
-# TODO: This setting will not persist across reboots
-sysctl -w kernel.sysrq=$(( $(cat /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq) | 64 ))
+# earlyoom specifically needs "SysRq 64 - enable signalling of processes (term, kill, oom-kill)"
+# but for simplicity just enable all SysRq
+sysctl -w kernel.sysrq=1
+echo kernel.sysrq=1 >> /etc/sysctl.conf
 
 if command -v earlyoom; then
   systemctl status earlyoom