<para>Allows deprioritizing or omitting this unit's cgroup as a candidate when
<command>systemd-oomd</command> needs to act. Requires support for extended attributes (see
<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>xattr</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>)
- in order to use <option>avoid</option> or <option>omit</option>. Additionally,
- <command>systemd-oomd</command> will ignore these extended attributes if the unit's cgroup is not
- owned by the root user.</para>
+ in order to use <option>avoid</option> or <option>omit</option>.</para>
+
+ <para>When calculating candidates to relieve swap usage, <command>systemd-oomd</command> will
+ only respect these extended attributes if the unit's cgroup is owned by root.</para>
+
+ <para>When calculating candidates to relieve memory pressure, <command>systemd-oomd</command>
+ will only respect these extended attributes if the unit's cgroup owner, and the
+ owner of the monitored ancestor cgroup are the same. For example, if <command>systemd-oomd</command>
+ is calculating candidates for <filename>-.slice</filename>, then extended attributes set
+ on descendants of <filename>/user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/</filename>
+ will be ignored because the descendants are owned by UID 1000, and <filename>-.slice</filename>
+ is owned by UID 0. But, if calculating candidates for
+ <filename>/user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/</filename>, then extended attributes set
+ on the descendants would be respected.</para>
<para>If this property is set to <option>avoid</option>, the service manager will convey this to
<command>systemd-oomd</command>, which will only select this cgroup if there are no other viable