diff --git a/init/init.cpp b/init/init.cpp
index 0f44efd..ac0e67a 100644
--- a/init/init.cpp
+++ b/init/init.cpp
@@ -630,6 +630,11 @@
     InitKernelLogging(argv, InitAborter);
     LOG(INFO) << "init second stage started!";
 
+    // Set init and its forked children's oom_adj.
+    if (auto result = WriteFile("/proc/1/oom_score_adj", "-1000"); !result) {
+        LOG(ERROR) << "Unable to write -1000 to /proc/1/oom_score_adj: " << result.error();
+    }
+
     // Enable seccomp if global boot option was passed (otherwise it is enabled in zygote).
     GlobalSeccomp();
 
diff --git a/rootdir/init.rc b/rootdir/init.rc
index b274cf3..17dd145 100644
--- a/rootdir/init.rc
+++ b/rootdir/init.rc
@@ -13,9 +13,6 @@
 
 # Cgroups are mounted right before early-init using list from /etc/cgroups.json
 on early-init
-    # Set init and its forked children's oom_adj.
-    write /proc/1/oom_score_adj -1000
-
     # Disable sysrq from keyboard
     write /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq 0