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"systemd.resource-control" xmlns:
xi=
"http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
8 <title>systemd.resource-control
</title>
9 <productname>systemd
</productname>
13 <refentrytitle>systemd.resource-control
</refentrytitle>
14 <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
18 <refname>systemd.resource-control
</refname>
19 <refpurpose>Resource control unit settings
</refpurpose>
24 <filename><replaceable>slice
</replaceable>.slice
</filename>,
25 <filename><replaceable>scope
</replaceable>.scope
</filename>,
26 <filename><replaceable>service
</replaceable>.service
</filename>,
27 <filename><replaceable>socket
</replaceable>.socket
</filename>,
28 <filename><replaceable>mount
</replaceable>.mount
</filename>,
29 <filename><replaceable>swap
</replaceable>.swap
</filename>
34 <title>Description
</title>
36 <para>Unit configuration files for services, slices, scopes, sockets, mount points, and swap devices share a subset
37 of configuration options for resource control of spawned processes. Internally, this relies on the Linux Control
38 Groups (cgroups) kernel concept for organizing processes in a hierarchical tree of named groups for the purpose of
39 resource management.
</para>
41 <para>This man page lists the configuration options shared by
42 those six unit types. See
43 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
44 for the common options of all unit configuration files, and
45 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.slice
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
46 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.scope
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
47 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.service
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
48 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.socket
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
49 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.mount
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
51 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.swap
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
52 for more information on the specific unit configuration files. The
53 resource control configuration options are configured in the
54 [Slice], [Scope], [Service], [Socket], [Mount], or [Swap]
55 sections, depending on the unit type.
</para>
57 <para>In addition, options which control resources available to programs
58 <emphasis>executed
</emphasis> by systemd are listed in
59 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.exec
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
60 Those options complement options listed here.
</para>
63 <title>Enabling and disabling controllers
</title>
65 <para>Controllers in the cgroup hierarchy are hierarchical, and resource control is realized by
66 distributing resource assignments between siblings in branches of the cgroup hierarchy. There is no
67 need to explicitly
<emphasis>enable
</emphasis> a cgroup controller for a unit.
68 <command>systemd
</command> will instruct the kernel to enable a controller for a given unit when this
69 unit has configuration for a given controller. For example, when
<varname>CPUWeight=
</varname> is set,
70 the
<option>cpu
</option> controller will be enabled, and when
<varname>TasksMax=
</varname> are set, the
71 <option>pids
</option> controller will be enabled. In addition, various controllers may be also be
72 enabled explicitly via the
73 <varname>MemoryAccounting=
</varname>/
<varname>TasksAccounting=
</varname>/
<varname>IOAccounting=
</varname>
74 settings. Because of how the cgroup hierarchy works, controllers will be automatically enabled for all
75 parent units and for any sibling units starting with the lowest level at which a controller is enabled.
76 Units for which a controller is enabled may be subject to resource control even if they don't have any
77 explicit configuration.
</para>
79 <para>Setting
<varname>Delegate=
</varname> enables any delegated controllers for that unit (see below).
80 The delegatee may then enable controllers for its children as appropriate. In particular, if the
81 delegatee is
<command>systemd
</command> (in the
<filename>user@.service
</filename> unit), it will
82 repeat the same logic as the system instance and enable controllers for user units which have resource
83 limits configured, and their siblings and parents and parents' siblings.
</para>
85 <para>Controllers may be
<emphasis>disabled
</emphasis> for parts of the cgroup hierarchy with
86 <varname>DisableControllers=
</varname> (see below).
</para>
89 <title>Enabling and disabling controllers
</title>
94 /-----/ \--------------\
96 system.slice user.slice
99 / \ user@
42.service user@
1000.service
100 / \ Delegate= Delegate=yes
101 a.service b.slice / \
102 CPUWeight=
20 DisableControllers=cpu / \
103 / \ app.slice session.slice
104 / \ CPUWeight=
100 CPUWeight=
100
106 b1.service b2.service
110 <para>In this hierarchy, the
<option>cpu
</option> controller is enabled for all units shown except
111 <filename>b1.service
</filename> and
<filename>b2.service
</filename>. Because there is no explicit
112 configuration for
<filename>system.slice
</filename> and
<filename>user.slice
</filename>, CPU
113 resources will be split equally between them. Similarly, resources are allocated equally between
114 children of
<filename>user.slice
</filename> and between the child slices beneath
115 <filename>user@
1000.service
</filename>. Assuming that there is no further configuration of resources
116 or delegation below slices
<filename>app.slice
</filename> or
<filename>session.slice
</filename>, the
117 <option>cpu
</option> controller would not be enabled for units in those slices and CPU resources
118 would be further allocated using other mechanisms, e.g. based on nice levels. The manager for user
119 42 has delegation enabled without any controllers, i.e. it can manipulate its subtree of the cgroup
120 hierarchy, but without resource control.
</para>
122 <para>In the slice
<filename>system.slice
</filename>, CPU resources are split
1:
6 for service
123 <filename>a.service
</filename>, and
5:
6 for slice
<filename>b.slice
</filename>, because slice
124 <filename>b.slice
</filename> gets the default value of
100 for
<filename>cpu.weight
</filename> when
125 <varname>CPUWeight=
</varname> is not set.
</para>
127 <para><varname>CPUWeight=
</varname> setting in service
<filename>b2.service
</filename> is neutralized
128 by
<varname>DisableControllers=
</varname> in slice
<filename>b.slice
</filename>, so the
129 <option>cpu
</option> controller would not be enabled for services
<filename>b1.service
</filename> and
130 <filename>b2.service
</filename>, and CPU resources would be further allocated using other mechanisms,
131 e.g. based on nice levels.
</para>
136 <title>Setting resource controls for a group of related units
</title>
138 <para>As described in
139 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>, the
140 settings listed here may be set through the main file of a unit and drop-in snippets in
141 <filename index=
"false">*.d/
</filename> directories. The list of directories searched for drop-ins
142 includes names formed by repeatedly truncating the unit name after all dashes. This is particularly
143 convenient to set resource limits for a group of units with similar names.
</para>
145 <para>For example, every user gets their own slice
146 <filename>user-
<replaceable>nnn
</replaceable>.slice
</filename>. Drop-ins with local configuration that
147 affect user
1000 may be placed in
148 <filename index=
"false">/etc/systemd/system/user-
1000.slice
</filename>,
149 <filename index=
"false">/etc/systemd/system/user-
1000.slice.d/*.conf
</filename>, but also
150 <filename index=
"false">/etc/systemd/system/user-.slice.d/*.conf
</filename>. This last directory
151 applies to all user slices.
</para>
157 url=
"https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/ControlGroupInterface">New
158 Control Group Interfaces
</ulink> for an introduction on how to make
159 use of resource control APIs from programs.
</para>
164 <title>Implicit Dependencies
</title>
166 <para>The following dependencies are implicitly added:
</para>
169 <listitem><para>Units with the
<varname>Slice=
</varname> setting set automatically acquire
170 <varname>Requires=
</varname> and
<varname>After=
</varname> dependencies on the specified
171 slice unit.
</para></listitem>
175 <!-- We don't have any default dependency here. -->
178 <title>Options
</title>
180 <para>Units of the types listed above can have settings for resource control configuration:
</para>
182 <refsect2><title>CPU Accounting and Control
</title>
184 <variablelist class='unit-directives'
>
187 <term><varname>CPUAccounting=
</varname></term>
190 <para>Turn on CPU usage accounting for this unit. Takes a
191 boolean argument. Note that turning on CPU accounting for
192 one unit will also implicitly turn it on for all units
193 contained in the same slice and for all its parent slices
194 and the units contained therein. The system default for this
195 setting may be controlled with
196 <varname>DefaultCPUAccounting=
</varname> in
197 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-system.conf
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
</para>
199 <para>Under the unified cgroup hierarchy, CPU accounting is available for all units and this
200 setting has no effect.
</para>
202 <xi:include href=
"version-info.xml" xpointer=
"v208"/>
207 <term><varname>CPUWeight=
<replaceable>weight
</replaceable></varname></term>
208 <term><varname>StartupCPUWeight=
<replaceable>weight
</replaceable></varname></term>
211 <para>These settings control the
<option>cpu
</option> controller in the unified hierarchy.
</para>
213 <para>These options accept an integer value or a the special string
"idle":
</para>
216 <para>If set to an integer value, assign the specified CPU time weight to the processes
217 executed, if the unified control group hierarchy is used on the system. These options control
218 the
<literal>cpu.weight
</literal> control group attribute. The allowed range is
1 to
10000.
219 Defaults to unset, but the kernel default is
100. For details about this control group
220 attribute, see
<ulink url=
"https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.html">Control Groups
221 v2
</ulink> and
<ulink url=
"https://docs.kernel.org/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.html">CFS
222 Scheduler
</ulink>. The available CPU time is split up among all units within one slice
223 relative to their CPU time weight. A higher weight means more CPU time, a lower weight means
227 <para>If set to the special string
"idle", mark the cgroup for
"idle scheduling", which means
228 that it will get CPU resources only when there are no processes not marked in this way to execute in this
229 cgroup or its siblings. This setting corresponds to the
<literal>cpu.idle
</literal> cgroup attribute.
</para>
231 <para>Note that this value only has an effect on cgroup-v2, for cgroup-v1 it is equivalent to the minimum weight.
</para>
235 <para>While
<varname>StartupCPUWeight=
</varname> applies to the startup and shutdown phases of the system,
236 <varname>CPUWeight=
</varname> applies to normal runtime of the system, and if the former is not set also to
237 the startup and shutdown phases. Using
<varname>StartupCPUWeight=
</varname> allows prioritizing specific services at
238 boot-up and shutdown differently than during normal runtime.
</para>
240 <para>In addition to the resource allocation performed by the
<option>cpu
</option> controller, the
241 kernel may automatically divide resources based on session-id grouping, see
"The autogroup feature"
243 project='man-pages'
><refentrytitle>sched
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
244 The effect of this feature is similar to the
<option>cpu
</option> controller with no explicit
245 configuration, so users should be careful to not mistake one for the other.
</para>
247 <xi:include href=
"version-info.xml" xpointer=
"v232"/>
252 <term><varname>CPUQuota=
</varname></term>
255 <para>This setting controls the
<option>cpu
</option> controller in the unified hierarchy.
</para>
257 <para>Assign the specified CPU time quota to the processes executed. Takes a percentage value, suffixed with
258 "%". The percentage specifies how much CPU time the unit shall get at maximum, relative to the total CPU time
259 available on one CPU. Use values
> 100% for allotting CPU time on more than one CPU. This controls the
260 <literal>cpu.max
</literal> attribute on the unified control group hierarchy and
261 <literal>cpu.cfs_quota_us
</literal> on legacy. For details about these control group attributes, see
<ulink
262 url=
"https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.html">Control Groups v2
</ulink> and
<ulink
263 url=
"https://docs.kernel.org/scheduler/sched-bwc.html">CFS Bandwidth Control
</ulink>.
264 Setting
<varname>CPUQuota=
</varname> to an empty value unsets the quota.
</para>
266 <para>Example:
<varname>CPUQuota=
20%
</varname> ensures that the executed processes will never get more than
267 20% CPU time on one CPU.
</para>
269 <xi:include href=
"version-info.xml" xpointer=
"v213"/>
275 <term><varname>CPUQuotaPeriodSec=
</varname></term>
278 <para>This setting controls the
<option>cpu
</option> controller in the unified hierarchy.
</para>
280 <para>Assign the duration over which the CPU time quota specified by
<varname>CPUQuota=
</varname> is measured.
281 Takes a time duration value in seconds, with an optional suffix such as
"ms" for milliseconds (or
"s" for seconds.)
282 The default setting is
100ms. The period is clamped to the range supported by the kernel, which is [
1ms,
1000ms].
283 Additionally, the period is adjusted up so that the quota interval is also at least
1ms.
284 Setting
<varname>CPUQuotaPeriodSec=
</varname> to an empty value resets it to the default.
</para>
286 <para>This controls the second field of
<literal>cpu.max
</literal> attribute on the unified control group hierarchy
287 and
<literal>cpu.cfs_period_us
</literal> on legacy. For details about these control group attributes, see
288 <ulink url=
"https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.html">Control Groups v2
</ulink> and
289 <ulink url=
"https://docs.kernel.org/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.html">CFS Scheduler
</ulink>.
</para>
291 <para>Example:
<varname>CPUQuotaPeriodSec=
10ms
</varname> to request that the CPU quota is measured in periods of
10ms.
</para>
293 <xi:include href=
"version-info.xml" xpointer=
"v242"/>
298 <term><varname>AllowedCPUs=
</varname></term>
299 <term><varname>StartupAllowedCPUs=
</varname></term>
302 <para>This setting controls the
<option>cpuset
</option> controller in the unified hierarchy.
</para>
304 <para>Restrict processes to be executed on specific CPUs. Takes a list of CPU indices or ranges separated by either
305 whitespace or commas. CPU ranges are specified by the lower and upper CPU indices separated by a dash.
</para>
307 <para>Setting
<varname>AllowedCPUs=
</varname> or
<varname>StartupAllowedCPUs=
</varname> doesn't guarantee that all
308 of the CPUs will be used by the processes as it may be limited by parent units. The effective configuration is
309 reported as
<varname>EffectiveCPUs=
</varname>.
</para>
311 <para>While
<varname>StartupAllowedCPUs=
</varname> applies to the startup and shutdown phases of the system,
312 <varname>AllowedCPUs=
</varname> applies to normal runtime of the system, and if the former is not set also to
313 the startup and shutdown phases. Using
<varname>StartupAllowedCPUs=
</varname> allows prioritizing specific services at
314 boot-up and shutdown differently than during normal runtime.
</para>
316 <para>This setting is supported only with the unified control group hierarchy.
</para>
318 <xi:include href=
"version-info.xml" xpointer=
"v244"/>
324 </refsect2><refsect2><title>Memory Accounting and Control
</title>
326 <variablelist class='unit-directives'
>
329 <term><varname>MemoryAccounting=
</varname></term>
332 <para>This setting controls the
<option>memory
</option> controller in the unified hierarchy.
</para>
334 <para>Turn on process and kernel memory accounting for this
335 unit. Takes a boolean argument. Note that turning on memory
336 accounting for one unit will also implicitly turn it on for
337 all units contained in the same slice and for all its parent
338 slices and the units contained therein. The system default
339 for this setting may be controlled with
340 <varname>DefaultMemoryAccounting=
</varname> in
341 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-system.conf
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
</para>
343 <xi:include href=
"version-info.xml" xpointer=
"v208"/>
348 <term><varname>MemoryMin=
<replaceable>bytes
</replaceable></varname>,
<varname>MemoryLow=
<replaceable>bytes
</replaceable></varname></term>
349 <term><varname>StartupMemoryLow=
<replaceable>bytes
</replaceable></varname>,
<varname>DefaultStartupMemoryLow=
<replaceable>bytes
</replaceable></varname></term>
352 <para>These settings control the
<option>memory
</option> controller in the unified hierarchy.
</para>
354 <para>Specify the memory usage protection of the executed processes in this unit.
355 When reclaiming memory, the unit is treated as if it was using less memory resulting in memory
356 to be preferentially reclaimed from unprotected units.
357 Using
<varname>MemoryLow=
</varname> results in a weaker protection where memory may still
358 be reclaimed to avoid invoking the OOM killer in case there is no other reclaimable memory.
</para>
360 For a protection to be effective, it is generally required to set a corresponding
361 allocation on all ancestors, which is then distributed between children
362 (with the exception of the root slice).
363 Any
<varname>MemoryMin=
</varname> or
<varname>MemoryLow=
</varname> allocation that is not
364 explicitly distributed to specific children is used to create a shared protection for all children.
365 As this is a shared protection, the children will freely compete for the memory.
</para>
367 <para>Takes a memory size in bytes. If the value is suffixed with K, M, G or T, the specified memory size is
368 parsed as Kilobytes, Megabytes, Gigabytes, or Terabytes (with the base
1024), respectively. Alternatively, a
369 percentage value may be specified, which is taken relative to the installed physical memory on the
370 system. If assigned the special value
<literal>infinity
</literal>, all available memory is protected, which may be
371 useful in order to always inherit all of the protection afforded by ancestors.
372 This controls the
<literal>memory.min
</literal> or
<literal>memory.low
</literal> control group attribute.
373 For details about this control group attribute, see
<ulink
374 url=
"https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.html#memory-interface-files">Memory Interface Files
</ulink>.
</para>
376 <para>Units may have their children use a default
<literal>memory.min
</literal> or
377 <literal>memory.low
</literal> value by specifying
<varname>DefaultMemoryMin=
</varname> or
378 <varname>DefaultMemoryLow=
</varname>, which has the same semantics as
379 <varname>MemoryMin=
</varname> and
<varname>MemoryLow=
</varname>, or
<varname>DefaultStartupMemoryLow=
</varname>
380 which has the same semantics as
<varname>StartupMemoryLow=
</varname>.
381 This setting does not affect
<literal>memory.min
</literal> or
<literal>memory.low
</literal>
383 Using it to set a default child allocation is only useful on kernels older than
5.7,
384 which do not support the
<literal>memory_recursiveprot
</literal> cgroup2 mount option.
</para>
386 <para>While
<varname>StartupMemoryLow=
</varname> applies to the startup and shutdown phases of the system,
387 <varname>MemoryMin=
</varname> applies to normal runtime of the system, and if the former is not set also to
388 the startup and shutdown phases. Using
<varname>StartupMemoryLow=
</varname> allows prioritizing specific services at
389 boot-up and shutdown differently than during normal runtime.
</para>
391 <xi:include href=
"version-info.xml" xpointer=
"v240"/>
396 <term><varname>MemoryHigh=
<replaceable>bytes
</replaceable></varname></term>
397 <term><varname>StartupMemoryHigh=
<replaceable>bytes
</replaceable></varname></term>
400 <para>These settings control the
<option>memory
</option> controller in the unified hierarchy.
</para>
402 <para>Specify the throttling limit on memory usage of the executed processes in this unit. Memory usage may go
403 above the limit if unavoidable, but the processes are heavily slowed down and memory is taken away
404 aggressively in such cases. This is the main mechanism to control memory usage of a unit.
</para>
406 <para>Takes a memory size in bytes. If the value is suffixed with K, M, G or T, the specified memory size is
407 parsed as Kilobytes, Megabytes, Gigabytes, or Terabytes (with the base
1024), respectively. Alternatively, a
408 percentage value may be specified, which is taken relative to the installed physical memory on the
409 system. If assigned the
410 special value
<literal>infinity
</literal>, no memory throttling is applied. This controls the
411 <literal>memory.high
</literal> control group attribute. For details about this control group attribute, see
412 <ulink url=
"https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.html#memory-interface-files">Memory Interface Files
</ulink>.
413 The effective configuration is reported as
<varname>EffectiveMemoryHigh=
</varname>
414 (see also
<varname>EffectiveMemoryMax=
</varname>).
</para>
416 <para>While
<varname>StartupMemoryHigh=
</varname> applies to the startup and shutdown phases of the system,
417 <varname>MemoryHigh=
</varname> applies to normal runtime of the system, and if the former is not set also to
418 the startup and shutdown phases. Using
<varname>StartupMemoryHigh=
</varname> allows prioritizing specific services at
419 boot-up and shutdown differently than during normal runtime.
</para>
421 <xi:include href=
"version-info.xml" xpointer=
"v231"/>
426 <term><varname>MemoryMax=
<replaceable>bytes
</replaceable></varname></term>
427 <term><varname>StartupMemoryMax=
<replaceable>bytes
</replaceable></varname></term>
430 <para>These settings control the
<option>memory
</option> controller in the unified hierarchy.
</para>
432 <para>Specify the absolute limit on memory usage of the executed processes in this unit. If memory usage
433 cannot be contained under the limit, out-of-memory killer is invoked inside the unit. It is recommended to
434 use
<varname>MemoryHigh=
</varname> as the main control mechanism and use
<varname>MemoryMax=
</varname> as the
435 last line of defense.
</para>
437 <para>Takes a memory size in bytes. If the value is suffixed with K, M, G or T, the specified memory size is
438 parsed as Kilobytes, Megabytes, Gigabytes, or Terabytes (with the base
1024), respectively. Alternatively, a
439 percentage value may be specified, which is taken relative to the installed physical memory on the system. If
440 assigned the special value
<literal>infinity
</literal>, no memory limit is applied. This controls the
441 <literal>memory.max
</literal> control group attribute. For details about this control group attribute, see
442 <ulink url=
"https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.html#memory-interface-files">Memory Interface Files
</ulink>.
443 The effective configuration is reported as
<varname>EffectiveMemoryMax=
</varname> (the value is
444 the most stringent limit of the unit and parent slices and it is capped by physical memory).
</para>
446 <para>While
<varname>StartupMemoryMax=
</varname> applies to the startup and shutdown phases of the system,
447 <varname>MemoryMax=
</varname> applies to normal runtime of the system, and if the former is not set also to
448 the startup and shutdown phases. Using
<varname>StartupMemoryMax=
</varname> allows prioritizing specific services at
449 boot-up and shutdown differently than during normal runtime.
</para>
451 <xi:include href=
"version-info.xml" xpointer=
"v231"/>
456 <term><varname>MemorySwapMax=
<replaceable>bytes
</replaceable></varname></term>
457 <term><varname>StartupMemorySwapMax=
<replaceable>bytes
</replaceable></varname></term>
460 <para>These settings control the
<option>memory
</option> controller in the unified hierarchy.
</para>
462 <para>Specify the absolute limit on swap usage of the executed processes in this unit.
</para>
464 <para>Takes a swap size in bytes. If the value is suffixed with K, M, G or T, the specified swap size is
465 parsed as Kilobytes, Megabytes, Gigabytes, or Terabytes (with the base
1024), respectively. If assigned the
466 special value
<literal>infinity
</literal>, no swap limit is applied. These settings control the
467 <literal>memory.swap.max
</literal> control group attribute. For details about this control group attribute,
468 see
<ulink url=
"https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.html#memory-interface-files">Memory Interface Files
</ulink>.
</para>
470 <para>While
<varname>StartupMemorySwapMax=
</varname> applies to the startup and shutdown phases of the system,
471 <varname>MemorySwapMax=
</varname> applies to normal runtime of the system, and if the former is not set also to
472 the startup and shutdown phases. Using
<varname>StartupMemorySwapMax=
</varname> allows prioritizing specific services at
473 boot-up and shutdown differently than during normal runtime.
</para>
475 <xi:include href=
"version-info.xml" xpointer=
"v232"/>
480 <term><varname>MemoryZSwapMax=
<replaceable>bytes
</replaceable></varname></term>
481 <term><varname>StartupMemoryZSwapMax=
<replaceable>bytes
</replaceable></varname></term>
484 <para>These settings control the
<option>memory
</option> controller in the unified hierarchy.
</para>
486 <para>Specify the absolute limit on zswap usage of the processes in this unit. Zswap is a lightweight compressed
487 cache for swap pages. It takes pages that are in the process of being swapped out and attempts to compress them into a
488 dynamically allocated RAM-based memory pool. If the limit specified is hit, no entries from this unit will be
489 stored in the pool until existing entries are faulted back or written out to disk. See the kernel's
490 <ulink url=
"https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/mm/zswap.html">Zswap
</ulink> documentation for more details.
</para>
492 <para>Takes a size in bytes. If the value is suffixed with K, M, G or T, the specified size is
493 parsed as Kilobytes, Megabytes, Gigabytes, or Terabytes (with the base
1024), respectively. If assigned the
494 special value
<literal>infinity
</literal>, no limit is applied. These settings control the
495 <literal>memory.zswap.max
</literal> control group attribute. For details about this control group attribute,
496 see
<ulink url=
"https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.html#memory-interface-files">Memory Interface Files
</ulink>.
</para>
498 <para>While
<varname>StartupMemoryZSwapMax=
</varname> applies to the startup and shutdown phases of the system,
499 <varname>MemoryZSwapMax=
</varname> applies to normal runtime of the system, and if the former is not set also to
500 the startup and shutdown phases. Using
<varname>StartupMemoryZSwapMax=
</varname> allows prioritizing specific services at
501 boot-up and shutdown differently than during normal runtime.
</para>
503 <xi:include href=
"version-info.xml" xpointer=
"v253"/>
508 <term><varname>AllowedMemoryNodes=
</varname></term>
509 <term><varname>StartupAllowedMemoryNodes=
</varname></term>
512 <para>These settings control the
<option>cpuset
</option> controller in the unified hierarchy.
</para>
514 <para>Restrict processes to be executed on specific memory NUMA nodes. Takes a list of memory NUMA nodes indices
515 or ranges separated by either whitespace or commas. Memory NUMA nodes ranges are specified by the lower and upper
516 NUMA nodes indices separated by a dash.
</para>
518 <para>Setting
<varname>AllowedMemoryNodes=
</varname> or
<varname>StartupAllowedMemoryNodes=
</varname> doesn't
519 guarantee that all of the memory NUMA nodes will be used by the processes as it may be limited by parent units.
520 The effective configuration is reported as
<varname>EffectiveMemoryNodes=
</varname>.
</para>
522 <para>While
<varname>StartupAllowedMemoryNodes=
</varname> applies to the startup and shutdown phases of the system,
523 <varname>AllowedMemoryNodes=
</varname> applies to normal runtime of the system, and if the former is not set also to
524 the startup and shutdown phases. Using
<varname>StartupAllowedMemoryNodes=
</varname> allows prioritizing specific services at
525 boot-up and shutdown differently than during normal runtime.
</para>
527 <para>This setting is supported only with the unified control group hierarchy.
</para>
529 <xi:include href=
"version-info.xml" xpointer=
"v244"/>
535 </refsect2><refsect2><title>Process Accounting and Control
</title>
537 <variablelist class='unit-directives'
>
540 <term><varname>TasksAccounting=
</varname></term>
543 <para>This setting controls the
<option>pids
</option> controller in the unified hierarchy.
</para>
545 <para>Turn on task accounting for this unit. Takes a boolean argument. If enabled, the kernel will
546 keep track of the total number of tasks in the unit and its children. This number includes both
547 kernel threads and userspace processes, with each thread counted individually. Note that turning on
548 tasks accounting for one unit will also implicitly turn it on for all units contained in the same
549 slice and for all its parent slices and the units contained therein. The system default for this
550 setting may be controlled with
<varname>DefaultTasksAccounting=
</varname> in
551 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-system.conf
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
</para>
553 <xi:include href=
"version-info.xml" xpointer=
"v227"/>
558 <term><varname>TasksMax=
<replaceable>N
</replaceable></varname></term>
561 <para>This setting controls the
<option>pids
</option> controller in the unified hierarchy.
</para>
563 <para>Specify the maximum number of tasks that may be created in the unit. This ensures that the
564 number of tasks accounted for the unit (see above) stays below a specific limit. This either takes
565 an absolute number of tasks or a percentage value that is taken relative to the configured maximum
566 number of tasks on the system. If assigned the special value
<literal>infinity
</literal>, no tasks
567 limit is applied. This controls the
<literal>pids.max
</literal> control group attribute. For
568 details about this control group attribute, the
569 <ulink url=
"https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.html#pid">pids controller
571 The effective configuration is reported as
<varname>EffectiveTasksMax=
</varname>.
</para>
573 <para>The system default for this setting may be controlled with
574 <varname>DefaultTasksMax=
</varname> in
575 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-system.conf
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
</para>
577 <xi:include href=
"version-info.xml" xpointer=
"v227"/>
583 </refsect2><refsect2><title>IO Accounting and Control
</title>
585 <variablelist class='unit-directives'
>
588 <term><varname>IOAccounting=
</varname></term>
591 <para>This setting controls the
<option>io
</option> controller in the unified hierarchy.
</para>
593 <para>Turn on Block I/O accounting for this unit, if the unified control group hierarchy is used on the
594 system. Takes a boolean argument. Note that turning on block I/O accounting for one unit will also implicitly
595 turn it on for all units contained in the same slice and all for its parent slices and the units contained
596 therein. The system default for this setting may be controlled with
<varname>DefaultIOAccounting=
</varname>
598 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-system.conf
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
</para>
600 <xi:include href=
"version-info.xml" xpointer=
"v230"/>
605 <term><varname>IOWeight=
<replaceable>weight
</replaceable></varname></term>
606 <term><varname>StartupIOWeight=
<replaceable>weight
</replaceable></varname></term>
609 <para>These settings control the
<option>io
</option> controller in the unified hierarchy.
</para>
611 <para>Set the default overall block I/O weight for the executed processes, if the unified control
612 group hierarchy is used on the system. Takes a single weight value (between
1 and
10000) to set the
613 default block I/O weight. This controls the
<literal>io.weight
</literal> control group attribute,
614 which defaults to
100. For details about this control group attribute, see
<ulink
615 url=
"https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.html#io-interface-files">IO
616 Interface Files
</ulink>. The available I/O bandwidth is split up among all units within one slice
617 relative to their block I/O weight. A higher weight means more I/O bandwidth, a lower weight means
620 <para>While
<varname>StartupIOWeight=
</varname> applies
621 to the startup and shutdown phases of the system,
622 <varname>IOWeight=
</varname> applies to the later runtime of
623 the system, and if the former is not set also to the startup
624 and shutdown phases. This allows prioritizing specific services at boot-up
625 and shutdown differently than during runtime.
</para>
627 <xi:include href=
"version-info.xml" xpointer=
"v230"/>
632 <term><varname>IODeviceWeight=
<replaceable>device
</replaceable> <replaceable>weight
</replaceable></varname></term>
635 <para>This setting controls the
<option>io
</option> controller in the unified hierarchy.
</para>
637 <para>Set the per-device overall block I/O weight for the executed processes, if the unified control group
638 hierarchy is used on the system. Takes a space-separated pair of a file path and a weight value to specify
639 the device specific weight value, between
1 and
10000. (Example:
<literal>/dev/sda
1000</literal>). The file
640 path may be specified as path to a block device node or as any other file, in which case the backing block
641 device of the file system of the file is determined. This controls the
<literal>io.weight
</literal> control
642 group attribute, which defaults to
100. Use this option multiple times to set weights for multiple devices.
643 For details about this control group attribute, see
<ulink
644 url=
"https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.html#io-interface-files">IO Interface Files
</ulink>.
</para>
646 <para>The specified device node should reference a block device that has an I/O scheduler
647 associated, i.e. should not refer to partition or loopback block devices, but to the originating,
648 physical device. When a path to a regular file or directory is specified it is attempted to
649 discover the correct originating device backing the file system of the specified path. This works
650 correctly only for simpler cases, where the file system is directly placed on a partition or
651 physical block device, or where simple
1:
1 encryption using dm-crypt/LUKS is used. This discovery
652 does not cover complex storage and in particular RAID and volume management storage devices.
</para>
654 <xi:include href=
"version-info.xml" xpointer=
"v230"/>
659 <term><varname>IOReadBandwidthMax=
<replaceable>device
</replaceable> <replaceable>bytes
</replaceable></varname></term>
660 <term><varname>IOWriteBandwidthMax=
<replaceable>device
</replaceable> <replaceable>bytes
</replaceable></varname></term>
663 <para>These settings control the
<option>io
</option> controller in the unified hierarchy.
</para>
665 <para>Set the per-device overall block I/O bandwidth maximum limit for the executed processes, if the unified
666 control group hierarchy is used on the system. This limit is not work-conserving and the executed processes
667 are not allowed to use more even if the device has idle capacity. Takes a space-separated pair of a file
668 path and a bandwidth value (in bytes per second) to specify the device specific bandwidth. The file path may
669 be a path to a block device node, or as any other file in which case the backing block device of the file
670 system of the file is used. If the bandwidth is suffixed with K, M, G, or T, the specified bandwidth is
671 parsed as Kilobytes, Megabytes, Gigabytes, or Terabytes, respectively, to the base of
1000. (Example:
672 "/dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1f.2-scsi-0:0:0:0 5M"). This controls the
<literal>io.max
</literal> control
673 group attributes. Use this option multiple times to set bandwidth limits for multiple devices. For details
674 about this control group attribute, see
<ulink
675 url=
"https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.html#io-interface-files">IO Interface Files
</ulink>.
678 <para>Similar restrictions on block device discovery as for
<varname>IODeviceWeight=
</varname> apply, see above.
</para>
680 <xi:include href=
"version-info.xml" xpointer=
"v230"/>
685 <term><varname>IOReadIOPSMax=
<replaceable>device
</replaceable> <replaceable>IOPS
</replaceable></varname></term>
686 <term><varname>IOWriteIOPSMax=
<replaceable>device
</replaceable> <replaceable>IOPS
</replaceable></varname></term>
689 <para>These settings control the
<option>io
</option> controller in the unified hierarchy.
</para>
691 <para>Set the per-device overall block I/O IOs-Per-Second maximum limit for the executed processes, if the
692 unified control group hierarchy is used on the system. This limit is not work-conserving and the executed
693 processes are not allowed to use more even if the device has idle capacity. Takes a space-separated pair of
694 a file path and an IOPS value to specify the device specific IOPS. The file path may be a path to a block
695 device node, or as any other file in which case the backing block device of the file system of the file is
696 used. If the IOPS is suffixed with K, M, G, or T, the specified IOPS is parsed as KiloIOPS, MegaIOPS,
697 GigaIOPS, or TeraIOPS, respectively, to the base of
1000. (Example:
698 "/dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1f.2-scsi-0:0:0:0 1K"). This controls the
<literal>io.max
</literal> control
699 group attributes. Use this option multiple times to set IOPS limits for multiple devices. For details about
700 this control group attribute, see
<ulink
701 url=
"https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.html#io-interface-files">IO Interface Files
</ulink>.
704 <para>Similar restrictions on block device discovery as for
<varname>IODeviceWeight=
</varname> apply, see above.
</para>
706 <xi:include href=
"version-info.xml" xpointer=
"v230"/>
711 <term><varname>IODeviceLatencyTargetSec=
<replaceable>device
</replaceable> <replaceable>target
</replaceable></varname></term>
714 <para>This setting controls the
<option>io
</option> controller in the unified hierarchy.
</para>
716 <para>Set the per-device average target I/O latency for the executed processes, if the unified control group
717 hierarchy is used on the system. Takes a file path and a timespan separated by a space to specify
718 the device specific latency target. (Example:
"/dev/sda 25ms"). The file path may be specified
719 as path to a block device node or as any other file, in which case the backing block device of the file
720 system of the file is determined. This controls the
<literal>io.latency
</literal> control group
721 attribute. Use this option multiple times to set latency target for multiple devices. For details about this
722 control group attribute, see
<ulink
723 url=
"https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.html#io-interface-files">IO Interface Files
</ulink>.
</para>
725 <para>Implies
<literal>IOAccounting=yes
</literal>.
</para>
727 <para>These settings are supported only if the unified control group hierarchy is used.
</para>
729 <para>Similar restrictions on block device discovery as for
<varname>IODeviceWeight=
</varname> apply, see above.
</para>
731 <xi:include href=
"version-info.xml" xpointer=
"v240"/>
737 </refsect2><refsect2><title>Network Accounting and Control
</title>
739 <variablelist class='unit-directives'
>
742 <term><varname>IPAccounting=
</varname></term>
745 <para>Takes a boolean argument. If true, turns on IPv4 and IPv6 network traffic accounting for packets sent
746 or received by the unit. When this option is turned on, all IPv4 and IPv6 sockets created by any process of
747 the unit are accounted for.
</para>
749 <para>When this option is used in socket units, it applies to all IPv4 and IPv6 sockets
750 associated with it (including both listening and connection sockets where this applies). Note that for
751 socket-activated services, this configuration setting and the accounting data of the service unit and the
752 socket unit are kept separate, and displayed separately. No propagation of the setting and the collected
753 statistics is done, in either direction. Moreover, any traffic sent or received on any of the socket unit's
754 sockets is accounted to the socket unit — and never to the service unit it might have activated, even if the
755 socket is used by it.
</para>
757 <para>The system default for this setting may be controlled with
<varname>DefaultIPAccounting=
</varname> in
758 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-system.conf
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
</para>
760 <xi:include href=
"version-info.xml" xpointer=
"v235"/>
765 <term><varname>IPAddressAllow=
<replaceable>ADDRESS[/PREFIXLENGTH]…
</replaceable></varname></term>
766 <term><varname>IPAddressDeny=
<replaceable>ADDRESS[/PREFIXLENGTH]…
</replaceable></varname></term>
769 <para>Turn on network traffic filtering for IP packets sent and received over
770 <constant>AF_INET
</constant> and
<constant>AF_INET6
</constant> sockets. Both directives take a
771 space separated list of IPv4 or IPv6 addresses, each optionally suffixed with an address prefix
772 length in bits after a
<literal>/
</literal> character. If the suffix is omitted, the address is
773 considered a host address, i.e. the filter covers the whole address (
32 bits for IPv4,
128 bits for
776 <para>The access lists configured with this option are applied to all sockets created by processes
777 of this unit (or in the case of socket units, associated with it). The lists are implicitly
778 combined with any lists configured for any of the parent slice units this unit might be a member
779 of. By default both access lists are empty. Both ingress and egress traffic is filtered by these
780 settings. In case of ingress traffic the source IP address is checked against these access lists,
781 in case of egress traffic the destination IP address is checked. The following rules are applied in
785 <listitem><para>Access is granted when the checked IP address matches an entry in the
786 <varname>IPAddressAllow=
</varname> list.
</para></listitem>
788 <listitem><para>Otherwise, access is denied when the checked IP address matches an entry in the
789 <varname>IPAddressDeny=
</varname> list.
</para></listitem>
791 <listitem><para>Otherwise, access is granted.
</para></listitem>
794 <para>In order to implement an allow-listing IP firewall, it is recommended to use a
795 <varname>IPAddressDeny=
</varname><constant>any
</constant> setting on an upper-level slice unit
796 (such as the root slice
<filename>-.slice
</filename> or the slice containing all system services
797 <filename>system.slice
</filename> – see
798 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.special
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>
799 for details on these slice units), plus individual per-service
<varname>IPAddressAllow=
</varname>
800 lines permitting network access to relevant services, and only them.
</para>
802 <para>Note that for socket-activated services, the IP access list configured on the socket unit
803 applies to all sockets associated with it directly, but not to any sockets created by the
804 ultimately activated services for it. Conversely, the IP access list configured for the service is
805 not applied to any sockets passed into the service via socket activation. Thus, it is usually a
806 good idea to replicate the IP access lists on both the socket and the service unit. Nevertheless,
807 it may make sense to maintain one list more open and the other one more restricted, depending on
810 <para>If these settings are used multiple times in the same unit the specified lists are combined. If an
811 empty string is assigned to these settings the specific access list is reset and all previous settings undone.
</para>
813 <para>In place of explicit IPv4 or IPv6 address and prefix length specifications a small set of symbolic
814 names may be used. The following names are defined:
</para>
817 <title>Special address/network names
</title>
820 <colspec colname='name'
/>
821 <colspec colname='definition'
/>
822 <colspec colname='meaning'
/>
826 <entry>Symbolic Name
</entry>
827 <entry>Definition
</entry>
828 <entry>Meaning
</entry>
834 <entry><constant>any
</constant></entry>
835 <entry>0.0.0.0/
0 ::/
0</entry>
836 <entry>Any host
</entry>
840 <entry><constant>localhost
</constant></entry>
841 <entry>127.0.0.0/
8 ::
1/
128</entry>
842 <entry>All addresses on the local loopback
</entry>
846 <entry><constant>link-local
</constant></entry>
847 <entry>169.254.0.0/
16 fe80::/
64</entry>
848 <entry>All link-local IP addresses
</entry>
852 <entry><constant>multicast
</constant></entry>
853 <entry>224.0.0.0/
4 ff00::/
8</entry>
854 <entry>All IP multicasting addresses
</entry>
860 <para>Note that these settings might not be supported on some systems (for example if eBPF control group
861 support is not enabled in the underlying kernel or container manager). These settings will have no effect in
862 that case. If compatibility with such systems is desired it is hence recommended to not exclusively rely on
863 them for IP security.
</para>
865 <xi:include href=
"cgroup-sandboxing.xml" xpointer=
"singular"/>
867 <xi:include href=
"version-info.xml" xpointer=
"v235"/>
872 <term><varname>SocketBindAllow=
<replaceable>bind-rule
</replaceable></varname></term>
873 <term><varname>SocketBindDeny=
<replaceable>bind-rule
</replaceable></varname></term>
876 <para>Allow or deny binding a socket address to a socket by matching it with the
<replaceable>bind-rule
</replaceable> and
877 applying a corresponding action if there is a match.
</para>
879 <para><replaceable>bind-rule
</replaceable> describes socket properties such as
<replaceable>address-family
</replaceable>,
880 <replaceable>transport-protocol
</replaceable> and
<replaceable>ip-ports
</replaceable>.
</para>
882 <para><replaceable>bind-rule
</replaceable> :=
883 { [
<replaceable>address-family
</replaceable><constant>:
</constant>][
<replaceable>transport-protocol
</replaceable><constant>:
</constant>][
<replaceable>ip-ports
</replaceable>] |
<constant>any
</constant> }
</para>
885 <para><replaceable>address-family
</replaceable> := {
<constant>ipv4
</constant> |
<constant>ipv6
</constant> }
</para>
887 <para><replaceable>transport-protocol
</replaceable> := {
<constant>tcp
</constant> |
<constant>udp
</constant> }
</para>
889 <para><replaceable>ip-ports
</replaceable> := {
<replaceable>ip-port
</replaceable> |
<replaceable>ip-port-range
</replaceable> }
</para>
891 <para>An optional
<replaceable>address-family
</replaceable> expects
<constant>ipv4
</constant> or
<constant>ipv6
</constant> values.
892 If not specified, a rule will be matched for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and applied depending on other socket fields, e.g.
<replaceable>transport-protocol
</replaceable>,
893 <replaceable>ip-port
</replaceable>.
</para>
895 <para>An optional
<replaceable>transport-protocol
</replaceable> expects
<constant>tcp
</constant> or
<constant>udp
</constant> transport protocol names.
896 If not specified, a rule will be matched for any transport protocol.
</para>
898 <para>An optional
<replaceable>ip-port
</replaceable> value must lie within
1…
65535 interval inclusively, i.e.
899 dynamic port
<constant>0</constant> is not allowed. A range of sequential ports is described by
900 <replaceable>ip-port-range
</replaceable> :=
<replaceable>ip-port-low
</replaceable><constant>-
</constant><replaceable>ip-port-high
</replaceable>,
901 where
<replaceable>ip-port-low
</replaceable> is smaller than or equal to
<replaceable>ip-port-high
</replaceable>
902 and both are within
1…
65535 inclusively.
</para>
904 <para>A special value
<constant>any
</constant> can be used to apply a rule to any address family, transport protocol and any port with a positive value.
</para>
906 <para>To allow multiple rules assign
<varname>SocketBindAllow=
</varname> or
<varname>SocketBindDeny=
</varname> multiple times.
907 To clear the existing assignments pass an empty
<varname>SocketBindAllow=
</varname> or
<varname>SocketBindDeny=
</varname>
910 <para>For each of
<varname>SocketBindAllow=
</varname> and
<varname>SocketBindDeny=
</varname>, maximum allowed number of assignments is
911 <constant>128</constant>.
</para>
914 <listitem><para>Binding to a socket is allowed when a socket address matches an entry in the
915 <varname>SocketBindAllow=
</varname> list.
</para></listitem>
917 <listitem><para>Otherwise, binding is denied when the socket address matches an entry in the
918 <varname>SocketBindDeny=
</varname> list.
</para></listitem>
920 <listitem><para>Otherwise, binding is allowed.
</para></listitem>
923 <para>The feature is implemented with
<constant>cgroup/bind4
</constant> and
<constant>cgroup/bind6
</constant> cgroup-bpf hooks.
</para>
924 <para>Examples:
<programlisting>…
925 # Allow binding IPv6 socket addresses with a port greater than or equal to
10000.
927 SocketBindAllow=ipv6:
10000-
65535
930 # Allow binding IPv4 and IPv6 socket addresses with
1234 and
4321 ports.
936 # Deny binding IPv6 socket addresses.
940 # Deny binding IPv4 and IPv6 socket addresses.
944 # Allow binding only over TCP
949 # Allow binding only over IPv6/TCP
951 SocketBindAllow=ipv6:tcp
954 # Allow binding ports within
10000-
65535 range over IPv4/UDP.
956 SocketBindAllow=ipv4:udp:
10000-
65535
958 …
</programlisting></para>
960 <xi:include href=
"cgroup-sandboxing.xml" xpointer=
"singular"/>
962 <xi:include href=
"version-info.xml" xpointer=
"v249"/>
967 <term><varname>RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
</varname></term>
970 <para>Takes a list of space-separated network interface names. This option restricts the network
971 interfaces that processes of this unit can use. By default processes can only use the network interfaces
972 listed (allow-list). If the first character of the rule is
<literal>~
</literal>, the effect is inverted:
973 the processes can only use network interfaces not listed (deny-list).
976 <para>This option can appear multiple times, in which case the network interface names are merged. If the
977 empty string is assigned the set is reset, all prior assignments will have not effect.
980 <para>If you specify both types of this option (i.e. allow-listing and deny-listing), the first encountered
981 will take precedence and will dictate the default action (allow vs deny). Then the next occurrences of this
982 option will add or delete the listed network interface names from the set, depending of its type and the
986 <para>The loopback interface (
"lo") is not treated in any special way, you have to configure it explicitly
989 <para>Example
1: allow-list
991 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=eth1
992 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=eth2
</programlisting>
993 Programs in the unit will be only able to use the eth1 and eth2 network
997 <para>Example
2: deny-list
999 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=~eth1 eth2
</programlisting>
1000 Programs in the unit will be able to use any network interface but eth1 and eth2.
1003 <para>Example
3: mixed
1005 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=eth1 eth2
1006 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=~eth1
</programlisting>
1007 Programs in the unit will be only able to use the eth2 network interface.
1010 <xi:include href=
"cgroup-sandboxing.xml" xpointer=
"singular"/>
1012 <xi:include href=
"version-info.xml" xpointer=
"v250"/>
1017 <term><varname>NFTSet=
</varname><replaceable>family
</replaceable>:
<replaceable>table
</replaceable>:
<replaceable>set
</replaceable></term>
1019 <para>This setting provides a method for integrating dynamic cgroup, user and group IDs into
1020 firewall rules with
<ulink url=
"https://netfilter.org/projects/nftables/index.html">NFT
</ulink>
1021 sets. The benefit of using this setting is to be able to use the IDs as selectors in firewall rules
1022 easily and this in turn allows more fine grained filtering. NFT rules for cgroup matching use
1023 numeric cgroup IDs, which change every time a service is restarted, making them hard to use in
1024 systemd environment otherwise. Dynamic and random IDs used by
<varname>DynamicUser=
</varname> can
1025 be also integrated with this setting.
</para>
1027 <para>This option expects a whitespace separated list of NFT set definitions. Each definition
1028 consists of a colon-separated tuple of source type (one of
<literal>cgroup
</literal>,
1029 <literal>user
</literal> or
<literal>group
</literal>), NFT address family (one of
1030 <literal>arp
</literal>,
<literal>bridge
</literal>,
<literal>inet
</literal>,
<literal>ip
</literal>,
1031 <literal>ip6
</literal>, or
<literal>netdev
</literal>), table name and set name. The names of tables
1032 and sets must conform to lexical restrictions of NFT table names. The type of the element used in
1033 the NFT filter must match the type implied by the directive (
<literal>cgroup
</literal>,
1034 <literal>user
</literal> or
<literal>group
</literal>) as shown in the table below. When a control
1035 group or a unit is realized, the corresponding ID will be appended to the NFT sets and it will be
1036 be removed when the control group or unit is removed.
<command>systemd
</command> only inserts
1037 elements to (or removes from) the sets, so the related NFT rules, tables and sets must be prepared
1038 elsewhere in advance. Failures to manage the sets will be ignored.
</para>
1041 <title>Defined
<varname>source type
</varname> values
</title>
1043 <colspec colname='source type'
/>
1044 <colspec colname='description'
/>
1045 <colspec colname='NFT type name'
/>
1048 <entry>Source type
</entry>
1049 <entry>Description
</entry>
1050 <entry>Corresponding NFT type name
</entry>
1056 <entry><literal>cgroup
</literal></entry>
1057 <entry>control group ID
</entry>
1058 <entry><literal>cgroupsv2
</literal></entry>
1061 <entry><literal>user
</literal></entry>
1062 <entry>user ID
</entry>
1063 <entry><literal>meta skuid
</literal></entry>
1066 <entry><literal>group
</literal></entry>
1067 <entry>group ID
</entry>
1068 <entry><literal>meta skgid
</literal></entry>
1074 <para>If the firewall rules are reinstalled so that the contents of NFT sets are destroyed, command
1075 <command>systemctl daemon-reload
</command> can be used to refill the sets.
</para>
1078 <programlisting>[Unit]
1079 NFTSet=cgroup:inet:filter:my_service user:inet:filter:serviceuser
1081 Corresponding NFT rules:
1082 <programlisting>table inet filter {
1090 socket cgroupv2 level
2 @my_service accept
1094 meta skuid @serviceuser accept
1099 <xi:include href=
"version-info.xml" xpointer=
"v255"/></listitem>
1104 </refsect2><refsect2><title>BPF Programs
</title>
1106 <variablelist class='unit-directives'
>
1109 <term><varname>IPIngressFilterPath=
<replaceable>BPF_FS_PROGRAM_PATH
</replaceable></varname></term>
1110 <term><varname>IPEgressFilterPath=
<replaceable>BPF_FS_PROGRAM_PATH
</replaceable></varname></term>
1113 <para>Add custom network traffic filters implemented as BPF programs, applying to all IP packets
1114 sent and received over
<constant>AF_INET
</constant> and
<constant>AF_INET6
</constant> sockets.
1115 Takes an absolute path to a pinned BPF program in the BPF virtual filesystem (
<filename>/sys/fs/bpf/
</filename>).
1118 <para>The filters configured with this option are applied to all sockets created by processes
1119 of this unit (or in the case of socket units, associated with it). The filters are loaded in addition
1120 to filters any of the parent slice units this unit might be a member of as well as any
1121 <varname>IPAddressAllow=
</varname> and
<varname>IPAddressDeny=
</varname> filters in any of these units.
1122 By default there are no filters specified.
</para>
1124 <para>If these settings are used multiple times in the same unit all the specified programs are attached. If an
1125 empty string is assigned to these settings the program list is reset and all previous specified programs ignored.
</para>
1127 <para>If the path
<replaceable>BPF_FS_PROGRAM_PATH
</replaceable> in
<varname>IPIngressFilterPath=
</varname> assignment
1128 is already being handled by
<varname>BPFProgram=
</varname> ingress hook, e.g.
1129 <varname>BPFProgram=
</varname><constant>ingress
</constant>:
<replaceable>BPF_FS_PROGRAM_PATH
</replaceable>,
1130 the assignment will be still considered valid and the program will be attached to a cgroup. Same for
1131 <varname>IPEgressFilterPath=
</varname> path and
<constant>egress
</constant> hook.
</para>
1133 <para>Note that for socket-activated services, the IP filter programs configured on the socket unit apply to
1134 all sockets associated with it directly, but not to any sockets created by the ultimately activated services
1135 for it. Conversely, the IP filter programs configured for the service are not applied to any sockets passed into
1136 the service via socket activation. Thus, it is usually a good idea, to replicate the IP filter programs on both
1137 the socket and the service unit, however it often makes sense to maintain one configuration more open and the other
1138 one more restricted, depending on the use case.
</para>
1140 <para>Note that these settings might not be supported on some systems (for example if eBPF control group
1141 support is not enabled in the underlying kernel or container manager). These settings will fail the service in
1142 that case. If compatibility with such systems is desired it is hence recommended to attach your filter manually
1143 (requires
<varname>Delegate=
</varname><constant>yes
</constant>) instead of using this setting.
</para>
1145 <xi:include href=
"version-info.xml" xpointer=
"v243"/>
1150 <term><varname>BPFProgram=
<replaceable>type
</replaceable>:
<replaceable>program-path
</replaceable></varname></term>
1152 <para><varname>BPFProgram=
</varname> allows attaching custom BPF programs to the cgroup of a
1153 unit. (This generalizes the functionality exposed via
<varname>IPEgressFilterPath=
</varname> and
1154 <varname>IPIngressFilterPath=
</varname> for other hooks.) Cgroup-bpf hooks in the form of BPF
1155 programs loaded to the BPF filesystem are attached with cgroup-bpf attach flags determined by the
1156 unit. For details about attachment types and flags see
<ulink
1157 url=
"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/plain/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h"><filename>bpf.h
</filename></ulink>. Also
1158 refer to the general
<ulink url=
"https://docs.kernel.org/bpf/">BPF documentation
</ulink>.
</para>
1160 <para>The specification of BPF program consists of a pair of BPF program type and program path in
1161 the file system, with
<literal>:
</literal> as the separator:
1162 <replaceable>type
</replaceable>:
<replaceable>program-path
</replaceable>.
</para>
1164 <para>The BPF program type is equivalent to the BPF attach type used in
1165 <citerefentry project='mankier'
><refentrytitle>bpftool
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
1167 <constant>egress
</constant>,
1168 <constant>ingress
</constant>,
1169 <constant>sock_create
</constant>,
1170 <constant>sock_ops
</constant>,
1171 <constant>device
</constant>,
1172 <constant>bind4
</constant>,
1173 <constant>bind6
</constant>,
1174 <constant>connect4
</constant>,
1175 <constant>connect6
</constant>,
1176 <constant>post_bind4
</constant>,
1177 <constant>post_bind6
</constant>,
1178 <constant>sendmsg4
</constant>,
1179 <constant>sendmsg6
</constant>,
1180 <constant>sysctl
</constant>,
1181 <constant>recvmsg4
</constant>,
1182 <constant>recvmsg6
</constant>,
1183 <constant>getsockopt
</constant>,
1184 or
<constant>setsockopt
</constant>.
1187 <para>The specified program path must be an absolute path referencing a BPF program inode in the
1188 bpffs file system (which generally means it must begin with
<filename>/sys/fs/bpf/
</filename>). If
1189 a specified program does not exist (i.e. has not been uploaded to the BPF subsystem of the kernel
1190 yet), it will not be installed but unit activation will continue (a warning will be printed to the
1193 <para>Setting
<varname>BPFProgram=
</varname> to an empty value makes previous assignments
1196 <para>Multiple assignments of the same program type/path pair have the same effect as a single
1197 assignment: the program will be attached just once.
</para>
1199 <para>If BPF
<constant>egress
</constant> pinned to
<replaceable>program-path
</replaceable> path is already being
1200 handled by
<varname>IPEgressFilterPath=
</varname>,
<varname>BPFProgram=
</varname>
1201 assignment will be considered valid and
<varname>BPFProgram=
</varname> will be attached to a cgroup.
1202 Similarly for
<constant>ingress
</constant> hook and
<varname>IPIngressFilterPath=
</varname> assignment.
</para>
1204 <para>BPF programs passed with
<varname>BPFProgram=
</varname> are attached to the cgroup of a unit
1205 with BPF attach flag
<constant>multi
</constant>, that allows further attachments of the same
1206 <replaceable>type
</replaceable> within cgroup hierarchy topped by the unit cgroup.
</para>
1208 <para>Examples:
<programlisting>BPFProgram=egress:/sys/fs/bpf/egress-hook
1209 BPFProgram=bind6:/sys/fs/bpf/sock-addr-hook
1210 </programlisting></para>
1212 <xi:include href=
"version-info.xml" xpointer=
"v249"/>
1218 </refsect2><refsect2><title>Device Access
</title>
1220 <variablelist class='unit-directives'
>
1223 <term><varname>DeviceAllow=
</varname></term>
1226 <para>Control access to specific device nodes by the executed processes. Takes two space-separated
1227 strings: a device node specifier followed by a combination of
<constant>r
</constant>,
1228 <constant>w
</constant>,
<constant>m
</constant> to control
<emphasis>r
</emphasis>eading,
1229 <emphasis>w
</emphasis>riting, or creation of the specific device nodes by the unit
1230 (
<emphasis>m
</emphasis>knod), respectively. This functionality is implemented using eBPF
1233 <para>When access to
<emphasis>all
</emphasis> physical devices should be disallowed,
1234 <varname>PrivateDevices=
</varname> may be used instead. See
1235 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.exec
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
1238 <para>The device node specifier is either a path to a device node in the file system, starting with
1239 <filename>/dev/
</filename>, or a string starting with either
<literal>char-
</literal> or
1240 <literal>block-
</literal> followed by a device group name, as listed in
1241 <filename>/proc/devices
</filename>. The latter is useful to allow-list all current and future
1242 devices belonging to a specific device group at once. The device group is matched according to
1243 filename globbing rules, you may hence use the
<literal>*
</literal> and
<literal>?
</literal>
1244 wildcards. (Note that such globbing wildcards are not available for device node path
1245 specifications!) In order to match device nodes by numeric major/minor, use device node paths in
1246 the
<filename>/dev/char/
</filename> and
<filename>/dev/block/
</filename> directories. However,
1247 matching devices by major/minor is generally not recommended as assignments are neither stable nor
1248 portable between systems or different kernel versions.
</para>
1250 <para>Examples:
<filename>/dev/sda5
</filename> is a path to a device node, referring to an ATA or
1251 SCSI block device.
<literal>char-pts
</literal> and
<literal>char-alsa
</literal> are specifiers for
1252 all pseudo TTYs and all ALSA sound devices, respectively.
<literal>char-cpu/*
</literal> is a
1253 specifier matching all CPU related device groups.
</para>
1255 <para>Note that allow lists defined this way should only reference device groups which are
1256 resolvable at the time the unit is started. Any device groups not resolvable then are not added to
1257 the device allow list. In order to work around this limitation, consider extending service units
1258 with a pair of
<command>After=modprobe@xyz.service
</command> and
1259 <command>Wants=modprobe@xyz.service
</command> lines that load the necessary kernel module
1260 implementing the device group if missing.
1261 Example:
<programlisting>…
1263 Wants=modprobe@loop.service
1264 After=modprobe@loop.service
1267 DeviceAllow=block-loop
1268 DeviceAllow=/dev/loop-control
1269 …
</programlisting></para>
1271 <xi:include href=
"cgroup-sandboxing.xml" xpointer=
"singular"/>
1273 <xi:include href=
"version-info.xml" xpointer=
"v208"/>
1278 <term><varname>DevicePolicy=auto|closed|strict
</varname></term>
1282 Control the policy for allowing device access:
1286 <term><option>strict
</option></term>
1288 <para>means to only allow types of access that are
1289 explicitly specified.
</para>
1291 <xi:include href=
"version-info.xml" xpointer=
"v208"/>
1296 <term><option>closed
</option></term>
1298 <para>in addition, allows access to standard pseudo
1300 <filename>/dev/null
</filename>,
1301 <filename>/dev/zero
</filename>,
1302 <filename>/dev/full
</filename>,
1303 <filename>/dev/random
</filename>, and
1304 <filename>/dev/urandom
</filename>.
1307 <xi:include href=
"version-info.xml" xpointer=
"v208"/>
1312 <term><option>auto
</option></term>
1315 in addition, allows access to all devices if no
1316 explicit
<varname>DeviceAllow=
</varname> is present.
1317 This is the default.
1320 <xi:include href=
"version-info.xml" xpointer=
"v208"/>
1325 <xi:include href=
"cgroup-sandboxing.xml" xpointer=
"singular"/>
1327 <xi:include href=
"version-info.xml" xpointer=
"v208"/>
1333 </refsect2><refsect2><title>Control Group Management
</title>
1335 <variablelist class='unit-directives'
>
1338 <term><varname>Slice=
</varname></term>
1341 <para>The name of the slice unit to place the unit
1342 in. Defaults to
<filename>system.slice
</filename> for all
1343 non-instantiated units of all unit types (except for slice
1344 units themselves see below). Instance units are by default
1345 placed in a subslice of
<filename>system.slice
</filename>
1346 that is named after the template name.
</para>
1348 <para>This option may be used to arrange systemd units in a
1349 hierarchy of slices each of which might have resource
1350 settings applied.
</para>
1352 <para>For units of type slice, the only accepted value for
1353 this setting is the parent slice. Since the name of a slice
1354 unit implies the parent slice, it is hence redundant to ever
1355 set this parameter directly for slice units.
</para>
1357 <para>Special care should be taken when relying on the default slice assignment in templated service units
1358 that have
<varname>DefaultDependencies=no
</varname> set, see
1359 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.service
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>, section
1360 "Default Dependencies" for details.
</para>
1362 <xi:include href=
"version-info.xml" xpointer=
"v208"/>
1368 <term><varname>Delegate=
</varname></term>
1371 <para>Turns on delegation of further resource control partitioning to processes of the unit. Units
1372 where this is enabled may create and manage their own private subhierarchy of control groups below
1373 the control group of the unit itself. For unprivileged services (i.e. those using the
1374 <varname>User=
</varname> setting) the unit's control group will be made accessible to the relevant
1377 <para>When enabled the service manager will refrain from manipulating control groups or moving
1378 processes below the unit's control group, so that a clear concept of ownership is established: the
1379 control group tree at the level of the unit's control group and above (i.e. towards the root
1380 control group) is owned and managed by the service manager of the host, while the control group
1381 tree below the unit's control group is owned and managed by the unit itself.
</para>
1383 <para>Takes either a boolean argument or a (possibly empty) list of control group controller names.
1384 If true, delegation is turned on, and all supported controllers are enabled for the unit, making
1385 them available to the unit's processes for management. If false, delegation is turned off entirely
1386 (and no additional controllers are enabled). If set to a list of controllers, delegation is turned
1387 on, and the specified controllers are enabled for the unit. Assigning the empty string will enable
1388 delegation, but reset the list of controllers, and all assignments prior to this will have no
1389 effect. Note that additional controllers other than the ones specified might be made available as
1390 well, depending on configuration of the containing slice unit or other units contained in it.
1391 Defaults to false.
</para>
1393 <para>Note that controller delegation to less privileged code is only safe on the unified control
1394 group hierarchy. Accordingly, access to the specified controllers will not be granted to
1395 unprivileged services on the legacy hierarchy, even when requested.
</para>
1397 <xi:include href=
"supported-controllers.xml" xpointer=
"controllers-text" />
1399 <para>Not all of these controllers are available on all kernels however, and some are specific to
1400 the unified hierarchy while others are specific to the legacy hierarchy. Also note that the kernel
1401 might support further controllers, which aren't covered here yet as delegation is either not
1402 supported at all for them or not defined cleanly.
</para>
1404 <para>Note that because of the hierarchical nature of cgroup hierarchy, any controllers that are
1405 delegated will be enabled for the parent and sibling units of the unit with delegation.
</para>
1407 <para>For further details on the delegation model consult
<ulink
1408 url=
"https://systemd.io/CGROUP_DELEGATION">Control Group APIs and Delegation
</ulink>.
</para>
1410 <xi:include href=
"version-info.xml" xpointer=
"v218"/>
1415 <term><varname>DelegateSubgroup=
</varname></term>
1418 <para>Place unit processes in the specified subgroup of the unit's control group. Takes a valid
1419 control group name (not a path!) as parameter, or an empty string to turn this feature
1420 off. Defaults to off. The control group name must be usable as filename and avoid conflicts with
1421 the kernel's control group attribute files (i.e.
<filename>cgroup.procs
</filename> is not an
1422 acceptable name, since the kernel exposes a native control group attribute file by that name). This
1423 option has no effect unless control group delegation is turned on via
<varname>Delegate=
</varname>,
1424 see above. Note that this setting only applies to
"main" processes of a unit, i.e. for services to
1425 <varname>ExecStart=
</varname>, but not for
<varname>ExecReload=
</varname> and similar. If
1426 delegation is enabled, the latter are always placed inside a subgroup named
1427 <filename>.control
</filename>. The specified subgroup is automatically created (and potentially
1428 ownership is passed to the unit's configured user/group) when a process is started in it.
</para>
1430 <para>This option is useful to avoid manually moving the invoked process into a subgroup after it
1431 has been started. Since no processes should live in inner nodes of the control group tree it's
1432 almost always necessary to run the main (
"supervising") process of a unit that has delegation
1433 turned on in a subgroup.
</para>
1435 <xi:include href=
"version-info.xml" xpointer=
"v254"/>
1440 <term><varname>DisableControllers=
</varname></term>
1443 <para>Disables controllers from being enabled for a unit's children. If a controller listed is
1444 already in use in its subtree, the controller will be removed from the subtree. This can be used to
1445 avoid configuration in child units from being able to implicitly or explicitly enable a controller.
1446 Defaults to empty.
</para>
1448 <para>Multiple controllers may be specified, separated by spaces. You may also pass
1449 <varname>DisableControllers=
</varname> multiple times, in which case each new instance adds another controller
1450 to disable. Passing
<varname>DisableControllers=
</varname> by itself with no controller name present resets
1451 the disabled controller list.
</para>
1453 <para>It may not be possible to disable a controller after units have been started, if the unit or
1454 any child of the unit in question delegates controllers to its children, as any delegated subtree
1455 of the cgroup hierarchy is unmanaged by systemd.
</para>
1457 <xi:include href=
"supported-controllers.xml" xpointer=
"controllers-text" />
1459 <xi:include href=
"version-info.xml" xpointer=
"v240"/>
1465 </refsect2><refsect2><title>Memory Pressure Control
</title>
1467 <variablelist class='unit-directives'
>
1470 <term><varname>ManagedOOMSwap=auto|kill
</varname></term>
1471 <term><varname>ManagedOOMMemoryPressure=auto|kill
</varname></term>
1475 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-oomd.service
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
1476 will act on this unit's cgroups. Defaults to
<option>auto
</option>.
</para>
1478 <para>When set to
<option>kill
</option>, the unit becomes a candidate for monitoring by
1479 <command>systemd-oomd
</command>. If the cgroup passes the limits set by
1480 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>oomd.conf
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> or
1481 the unit configuration,
<command>systemd-oomd
</command> will select a descendant cgroup and send
1482 <constant>SIGKILL
</constant> to all of the processes under it. You can find more details on
1483 candidates and kill behavior at
1484 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-oomd.service
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
1486 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>oomd.conf
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
</para>
1488 <para>Setting either of these properties to
<option>kill
</option> will also result in
1489 <varname>After=
</varname> and
<varname>Wants=
</varname> dependencies on
1490 <filename>systemd-oomd.service
</filename> unless
<varname>DefaultDependencies=no
</varname>.
</para>
1492 <para>When set to
<option>auto
</option>,
<command>systemd-oomd
</command> will not actively use this
1493 cgroup's data for monitoring and detection. However, if an ancestor cgroup has one of these
1494 properties set to
<option>kill
</option>, a unit with
<option>auto
</option> can still be a candidate
1495 for
<command>systemd-oomd
</command> to terminate.
</para>
1497 <xi:include href=
"version-info.xml" xpointer=
"v247"/>
1502 <term><varname>ManagedOOMMemoryPressureLimit=
</varname></term>
1505 <para>Overrides the default memory pressure limit set by
1506 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>oomd.conf
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> for
1507 this unit (cgroup). Takes a percentage value between
0% and
100%, inclusive. This property is
1508 ignored unless
<varname>ManagedOOMMemoryPressure=
</varname><option>kill
</option>. Defaults to
0%,
1509 which means to use the default set by
1510 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>oomd.conf
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
1513 <xi:include href=
"version-info.xml" xpointer=
"v247"/>
1518 <term><varname>ManagedOOMPreference=none|avoid|omit
</varname></term>
1521 <para>Allows deprioritizing or omitting this unit's cgroup as a candidate when
1522 <command>systemd-oomd
</command> needs to act. Requires support for extended attributes (see
1523 <citerefentry project='man-pages'
><refentrytitle>xattr
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>)
1524 in order to use
<option>avoid
</option> or
<option>omit
</option>.
</para>
1526 <para>When calculating candidates to relieve swap usage,
<command>systemd-oomd
</command> will
1527 only respect these extended attributes if the unit's cgroup is owned by root.
</para>
1529 <para>When calculating candidates to relieve memory pressure,
<command>systemd-oomd
</command>
1530 will only respect these extended attributes if the unit's cgroup is owned by root, or if the
1531 unit's cgroup owner, and the owner of the monitored ancestor cgroup are the same. For example,
1532 if
<command>systemd-oomd
</command> is calculating candidates for
<filename>-.slice
</filename>,
1533 then extended attributes set on descendants of
<filename>/user.slice/user-
1000.slice/user@
1000.service/
</filename>
1534 will be ignored because the descendants are owned by UID
1000, and
<filename>-.slice
</filename>
1535 is owned by UID
0. But, if calculating candidates for
1536 <filename>/user.slice/user-
1000.slice/user@
1000.service/
</filename>, then extended attributes set
1537 on the descendants would be respected.
</para>
1539 <para>If this property is set to
<option>avoid
</option>, the service manager will convey this to
1540 <command>systemd-oomd
</command>, which will only select this cgroup if there are no other viable
1543 <para>If this property is set to
<option>omit
</option>, the service manager will convey this to
1544 <command>systemd-oomd
</command>, which will ignore this cgroup as a candidate and will not perform
1545 any actions on it.
</para>
1547 <para>It is recommended to use
<option>avoid
</option> and
<option>omit
</option> sparingly, as it
1548 can adversely affect
<command>systemd-oomd
</command>'s kill behavior. Also note that these extended
1549 attributes are not applied recursively to cgroups under this unit's cgroup.
</para>
1551 <para>Defaults to
<option>none
</option> which means
<command>systemd-oomd
</command> will rank this
1552 unit's cgroup as defined in
1553 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-oomd.service
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
1554 and
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>oomd.conf
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
1557 <xi:include href=
"version-info.xml" xpointer=
"v248"/>
1562 <term><varname>MemoryPressureWatch=
</varname></term>
1564 <listitem><para>Controls memory pressure monitoring for invoked processes. Takes one of
1565 <literal>off
</literal>,
<literal>on
</literal>,
<literal>auto
</literal> or
<literal>skip
</literal>. If
1566 <literal>off
</literal> tells the service not to watch for memory pressure events, by setting the
1567 <varname>$MEMORY_PRESSURE_WATCH
</varname> environment variable to the literal string
1568 <filename>/dev/null
</filename>. If
<literal>on
</literal> tells the service to watch for memory
1569 pressure events. This enables memory accounting for the service, and ensures the
1570 <filename>memory.pressure
</filename> cgroup attribute file is accessible for reading and writing by the
1571 service's user. It then sets the
<varname>$MEMORY_PRESSURE_WATCH
</varname> environment variable for
1572 processes invoked by the unit to the file system path to this file. The threshold information
1573 configured with
<varname>MemoryPressureThresholdSec=
</varname> is encoded in the
1574 <varname>$MEMORY_PRESSURE_WRITE
</varname> environment variable. If the
<literal>auto
</literal> value
1575 is set the protocol is enabled if memory accounting is anyway enabled for the unit, and disabled
1576 otherwise. If set to
<literal>skip
</literal> the logic is neither enabled, nor disabled and the two
1577 environment variables are not set.
</para>
1579 <para>Note that services are free to use the two environment variables, but it's unproblematic if
1580 they ignore them. Memory pressure handling must be implemented individually in each service, and
1581 usually means different things for different software. For further details on memory pressure
1582 handling see
<ulink url=
"https://systemd.io/MEMORY_PRESSURE">Memory Pressure Handling in
1583 systemd
</ulink>.
</para>
1585 <para>Services implemented using
1586 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-event
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry> may use
1587 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_event_add_memory_pressure
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
1588 to watch for and handle memory pressure events.
</para>
1590 <para>If not explicit set, defaults to the
<varname>DefaultMemoryPressureWatch=
</varname> setting in
1591 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-system.conf
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
</para>
1593 <xi:include href=
"version-info.xml" xpointer=
"v254"/></listitem>
1597 <term><varname>MemoryPressureThresholdSec=
</varname></term>
1599 <listitem><para>Sets the memory pressure threshold time for memory pressure monitor as configured via
1600 <varname>MemoryPressureWatch=
</varname>. Specifies the maximum allocation latency before a memory
1601 pressure event is signalled to the service, per
2s window. If not specified defaults to the
1602 <varname>DefaultMemoryPressureThresholdSec=
</varname> setting in
1603 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-system.conf
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
1604 (which in turn defaults to
200ms). The specified value expects a time unit such as
1605 <literal>ms
</literal> or
<literal>μs
</literal>, see
1606 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.time
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry> for
1607 details on the permitted syntax.
</para>
1609 <xi:include href=
"version-info.xml" xpointer=
"v254"/></listitem>
1613 </refsect2><refsect2><title>Coredump Control
</title>
1615 <variablelist class='unit-directives'
>
1618 <term><varname>CoredumpReceive=
</varname></term>
1620 <listitem><para>Takes a boolean argument. This setting is used to enable coredump forwarding for containers
1621 that belong to this unit's cgroup. Units with
<varname>CoredumpReceive=yes
</varname> must also be configured
1622 with
<varname>Delegate=yes
</varname>. Defaults to false.
</para>
1624 <para>When
<command>systemd-coredump
</command> is handling a coredump for a process from a container,
1625 if the container's leader process is a descendant of a cgroup with
<varname>CoredumpReceive=yes
</varname>
1626 and
<varname>Delegate=yes
</varname>, then
<command>systemd-coredump
</command> will attempt to forward
1627 the coredump to
<command>systemd-coredump
</command> within the container.
</para>
1629 <xi:include href=
"version-info.xml" xpointer=
"v255"/></listitem>
1637 <title>History
</title>
1641 <term>systemd
252</term>
1642 <listitem><para> Options for controlling the Legacy Control Group Hierarchy (
<ulink
1643 url=
"https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/index.html">Control Groups version
1</ulink>)
1644 are now fully deprecated:
1645 <varname>CPUShares=
<replaceable>weight
</replaceable></varname>,
1646 <varname>StartupCPUShares=
<replaceable>weight
</replaceable></varname>,
1647 <varname>MemoryLimit=
<replaceable>bytes
</replaceable></varname>,
1648 <varname>BlockIOAccounting=
</varname>,
1649 <varname>BlockIOWeight=
<replaceable>weight
</replaceable></varname>,
1650 <varname>StartupBlockIOWeight=
<replaceable>weight
</replaceable></varname>,
1651 <varname>BlockIODeviceWeight=
<replaceable>device
</replaceable>
1652 <replaceable>weight
</replaceable></varname>,
1653 <varname>BlockIOReadBandwidth=
<replaceable>device
</replaceable>
1654 <replaceable>bytes
</replaceable></varname>,
1655 <varname>BlockIOWriteBandwidth=
<replaceable>device
</replaceable> <replaceable>bytes
</replaceable></varname>.
1656 Please switch to the unified cgroup hierarchy.
</para>
1658 <xi:include href=
"version-info.xml" xpointer=
"v252"/></listitem>
1664 <title>See Also
</title>
1665 <para><simplelist type=
"inline">
1666 <member><citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
1667 <member><citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-system.conf
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
1668 <member><citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
1669 <member><citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.service
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
1670 <member><citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.slice
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
1671 <member><citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.scope
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
1672 <member><citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.socket
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
1673 <member><citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.mount
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
1674 <member><citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.swap
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
1675 <member><citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.exec
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
1676 <member><citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.directives
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
1677 <member><citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.special
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
1678 <member><citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-oomd.service
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
1679 <member>The documentation for control groups and specific controllers in the Linux kernel:
1680 <ulink url=
"https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.html">Control Groups v2
</ulink></member>
1681 </simplelist></para>
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