diff --git a/init/init.cpp b/init/init.cpp
index bbef1a9a1..2e28ec680 100644
--- a/init/init.cpp
+++ b/init/init.cpp
@@ -625,6 +625,11 @@ int SecondStageMain(int argc, char** argv) {
     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 f2e7a7cf6..06a4f8407 100644
--- a/rootdir/init.rc
+++ b/rootdir/init.rc
@@ -13,9 +13,6 @@ import /init.${ro.zygote}.rc
 
 # 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