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<term><varname>OOMPolicy=</varname></term>
- <listitem><para>Configure the out-of-memory (OOM) kernel killer policy. Note that the userspace OOM
+ <listitem><para>Configure the out-of-memory (OOM) killing policy for the kernel and 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
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-oomd.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
+ 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. Note that <filename>systemd-oomd.service</filename> is a more flexible solution that aims
+ to prevent out-of-memory situations for the userspace too, not just the kernel, by attempting to
+ terminate services earlier, before the kernel would have to act.</para>
+
+ <para>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
+ killed by the 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, by setting the