limits are only defaults for units, they are not applied to PID 1
itself.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>DefaultOOMPolicy=</varname></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Configure the default policy for reacting to processes being killed by the Linux
+ Out-Of-Memory (OOM) killer. This may be used to pick a global default for the per-unit
+ <varname>OOMPolicy=</varname> setting. See
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ for details. Note that this default is not used for services that have <varname>Delegate=</varname>
+ turned on.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>OOMScoreAdjust=</varname></term>
- <listitem><para>Sets the adjustment level for the Out-Of-Memory killer for executed processes. Takes an integer
- between -1000 (to disable OOM killing for this process) and 1000 (to make killing of this process under memory
- pressure very likely). See <ulink
- url="https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt">proc.txt</ulink> for
- details.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Sets the adjustment value for the Linux kernel's Out-Of-Memory (OOM) killer score for
+ executed processes. Takes an integer between -1000 (to disable OOM killing of processes of this unit)
+ and 1000 (to make killing of processes of this unit under memory pressure very likely). See <ulink
+ url="https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt">proc.txt</ulink> for details. If
+ not specified defaults to the OOM score adjustment level of the service manager itself, which is
+ normally at 0.</para>
+
+ <para>Use the <varname>OOMPolicy=</varname> setting of service units to configure how the service
+ manager shall react to the kernel OOM killer terminating a process of the service. See
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ for details.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
above.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>OOMPolicy=</varname></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Configure the Out-Of-Memory (OOM) killer policy. On Linux, when memory becomes scarce
+ the kernel might decide to kill a running process in order to free up memory and reduce memory
+ pressure. This setting takes one of <constant>continue</constant>, <constant>stop</constant> or
+ <constant>kill</constant>. If set to <constant>continue</constant> and a process of the service is
+ killed by the kernel's OOM killer this is logged but the service continues running. If set to
+ <constant>stop</constant> the event is logged but the service is terminated cleanly by the service
+ manager. If set to <constant>kill</constant> and one of the service's processes is killed by the OOM
+ killer the kernel is instructed to kill all remaining processes of the service, too. Defaults to the
+ setting <varname>DefaultOOMPolicy=</varname> in
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>system.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> is
+ set to, except for services where <varname>Delegate=</varname> is turned on, where it defaults to
+ <constant>continue</constant>.</para>
+
+ <para>Use the <varname>OOMScoreAdjust=</varname> setting to configure whether processes of the unit
+ shall be considered preferred or less preferred candidates for process termination by the Linux OOM
+ killer logic. See
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.exec</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> for
+ details.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
</variablelist>
<para>Check