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diff --git a/man/systemd.service.xml b/man/systemd.service.xml index ad303d440b..fbb77d5e58 100644 --- a/man/systemd.service.xml +++ b/man/systemd.service.xml @@ -1123,8 +1123,14 @@ <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 + <listitem><para>Configure the out-of-memory (OOM) kernel killer policy. Note that the userspace OOM + killer + <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-oomd.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> + is a more flexible solution that aims to prevent out-of-memory situations for the userspace, not just + the kernel.</para> + + <para>On Linux, when memory becomes scarce to the point that the kernel has trouble allocating memory + for itself, it 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 |