bazaarvoice/Priam — pull request #22 by shawnsmith (2014-01-08 19:58:45+00:00)
Title: Back out OOM-Killer adjustment code.

It appears that you must be root to give yourself a negative oom_adj score and Cassandra generally doesn't run as root. So this code had no effect. A better approach is to modify oom_score_adj in the init.d scripts that start Cassandra, for example in `/etc/default/cassandra`.