From: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 17:24:42 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: amazon-ssm-agent: Allow to overcommit memory
X-Git-Tag: v2.25-core143~37
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0c466599d059d273a1d2d3d2255a421c1a09be34;p=ipfire-2.x.git

amazon-ssm-agent: Allow to overcommit memory

Signed-off-by: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
Signed-off-by: Arne Fitzenreiter <arne_f@ipfire.org>
---

diff --git a/lfs/amazon-ssm-agent b/lfs/amazon-ssm-agent
index d4aa3fa903..4b08bd41de 100644
--- a/lfs/amazon-ssm-agent
+++ b/lfs/amazon-ssm-agent
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ DL_FROM    = $(URL_IPFIRE)
 DIR_APP    = $(DIR_SRC)/$(THISAPP)
 TARGET     = $(DIR_INFO)/$(THISAPP)
 PROG       = amazon-ssm-agent
-PAK_VER    = 2
+PAK_VER    = 3
 
 DEPS       =
 
diff --git a/src/initscripts/packages/amazon-ssm-agent b/src/initscripts/packages/amazon-ssm-agent
index c385d890ce..eeaa7b7e5c 100644
--- a/src/initscripts/packages/amazon-ssm-agent
+++ b/src/initscripts/packages/amazon-ssm-agent
@@ -13,6 +13,12 @@ case "${1}" in
 			exit 0
 		fi
 
+		# Allow the kernel to overcommit memory.
+		# The SSM agent fails to clone() itself when there is
+		# "not enough memory" available. This simply seems to
+		# fail no matter how much free memory is available.
+		echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory
+
 		boot_mesg "Starting Amazon SSM Agent..."
 		/usr/bin/amazon-ssm-agent &>/dev/null &
 		evaluate_retval