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by homebrewer 480 days ago
Create a systemd override (by using systemctl edit sshd) and add MemoryMin=32M (or whatever makes sense for your system). This makes sure sshd is never pushed out into swap.

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/syst...

You can also use sibling knobs to increase the CPU and IO weights of the unit, for example but setting this to something higher than 100:

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/syst...

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Is there a way to do that for alternate tty?

From time to time I’ll run something dumb on my machine (e.g. GC aggressive the wrong repo) and if I don’t catch the ramp up the machine will lock up until the oom killer find the right process. Sufficiently locked up, accessing alternate ttys to kill the offending process won’t work either.

I guess I could just reserve ssh then ssh into it from an other computer but…