diff --git a/cmd/attack/stress.go b/cmd/attack/stress.go
index c8ad3341..e0e84db6 100644
--- a/cmd/attack/stress.go
+++ b/cmd/attack/stress.go
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ func NewStressMemCommand(dep fx.Option, options *core.StressCommand) *cobra.Comm
 
 	cmd.Flags().StringVarP(&options.Size, "size", "s", "", "Size specifies N bytes consumed per vm worker, default is the total available memory. One can specify the size as % of total available memory or in units of B, KB/KiB, MB/MiB, GB/GiB, TB/TiB..")
 	cmd.Flags().StringSliceVarP(&options.Options, "options", "o", []string{}, "extend stress-ng options.")
+	cmd.Flags().IntVar(&options.OOMScoreAdj, "oom-score-adj", 0, "OOMScoreAdj specifies the oom_score_adj value for the memory stress process. The default is 0.")
 
 	return cmd
 }
diff --git a/pkg/core/stress.go b/pkg/core/stress.go
index d0ea6c3d..31eaebbb 100644
--- a/pkg/core/stress.go
+++ b/pkg/core/stress.go
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ type StressCommand struct {
 	Size        string   `json:"size,omitempty"`
 	Options     []string `json:"options,omitempty"`
 	StressngPid int32    `json:"stress-ng-pid,omitempty"`
+	OOMScoreAdj int      `json:"oom-score-adj,omitempty"`
 }
 
 var _ AttackConfig = &StressCommand{}
diff --git a/pkg/server/chaosd/stress.go b/pkg/server/chaosd/stress.go
index 6c119773..88377105 100644
--- a/pkg/server/chaosd/stress.go
+++ b/pkg/server/chaosd/stress.go
@@ -62,8 +62,9 @@ func (stressAttack) Attack(options core.AttackConfig, _ Environment) (err error)
 			Stressor: v1alpha1.Stressor{
 				Workers: attack.Workers,
 			},
-			Size:    attack.Size,
-			Options: attack.Options,
+			Size:        attack.Size,
+			Options:     attack.Options,
+			OOMScoreAdj: attack.OOMScoreAdj,
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -88,6 +89,7 @@ func (stressAttack) Attack(options core.AttackConfig, _ Environment) (err error)
 	log.Info("stressors normalize", zap.String("arguments", stressorsStr))
 
 	cmd := bpm.DefaultProcessBuilder(stressorTool, strings.Fields(stressorsStr)...).
+		SetOOMScoreAdj(attack.OOMScoreAdj).
 		Build(context.Background())
 
 	// Build will set SysProcAttr.Pdeathsig = syscall.SIGTERM, and so stress-ng will exit while chaosd exit