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Phuong Nguyen
Asked: 2015-01-03 01:27:37 +0800 CST

What happen if a systemd service reach its MemoryLimit?

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Does systemd restart the service or the system just refuse to let the service allocate more memory?

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    Setting MemoryLimit just causes systemd to run the service in a cgroup with the configured memory limit. It's up to the service to decide how to handle resource exhaustion.

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