choom

Display the OOM-killer score of a process

$ choom -p [pid]

$ choom -p [pid] -n [-1000..+1000]

$ choom -n [-1000..+1000] [command] [arguments]

choom [options]

choom displays and changes the Out-Of-Memory (OOM) killer score adjustment for processes. The OOM killer terminates processes when the system runs critically low on memory.
The score adjustment ranges from -1000 (never kill) to +1000 (kill first). A value of -1000 effectively disables OOM killing for that process.

-p, --pid pid

Specify the process ID

Set the OOM score adjustment (-1000 to +1000)

Requires appropriate privileges to modify OOM scores of other users' processes. Setting -1000 on too many processes can leave the system with no candidate to kill during memory exhaustion, potentially causing a system hang.

proc(5), kill(1), ps(1)