[systemd-devel] Antw: Re: Antw: [EXT] Re: Memory in systemctl status

[Ulrich Windl]

>>> Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> schrieb am 30.09.2020 um 10:56 in
Nachricht <a4f1a092-0946-d61e-f486-3fe3e2d34086 at thelounge.net>:

> 
> Am 30.09.20 um 09:06 schrieb Ulrich Windl:
>>> my webserver is killed because it served at monday, tuesday, thursday
>>> and friday 4 different files with 2 GB?
>> 
>> cgroups is for limiting resources, not for killing processes AFAIK
> 
> [Service]
> MemoryMax=4G
> 
> would call OOM killer

Are you sure? I thought OOM is called when the _system_ memory is exhausted.
IMHO any memory allocation request to the process will be denied, but the
process wouldn't be killed. But agreed, I didn't track the cgroups changes in
the last few years.

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