disable-oom-killer

Disable the OOM (Out Of Memory) Killer for a process (linux only)

examples

var disableOomKiller = require('disable-oom-killer')

disableOomKiller(function (err) {
	// swallow errors
})

var cp = require('child_process')
var disableOomKiller = require('disable-oom-killer')

var lsr = cp.spawn('ls', [ '-R' ])

disableOomKiller(lsr)

api

var disableOomKiller = require('disable-oom-killer')

disableOomKiller([opts], [cb])

• opts is an optional object:
  • pid is a string/number of the pid to kill. Defaults to process.pid. If the PID is not running, it will likely cause an error.
  • oom_adj is a string/number of the oom_adj. Defaults to -17
  • oom_score_adj is a string/number of the oom_score_adj. Defaults to -1000
• cb(err) is an optional callback function. Will call back with an error if on a non-linux system. If no callback is supplied, errors will be thrown.

disableOomKiller.sync([opts])

Synchronous version of disableOomKiller(). Any errors that occur will be thrown.

• opts - Same as above.

install

With npm do:

npm install disable-oom-killer

license

MIT