Setting the oom_score_adj to a larger value changes oom_adj to 16

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Setting the oom_score_adj to a value of 942 to 999 in /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj changes the oom_adj value to 16.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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