systemd/man/oomd.conf.xml
Anita Zhang 685b0985f0 oomd: threshold swap kill candidates to usages of more than 5%
In some instances, particularly with swap on zram, swap used will be high
while there is still a lot of memory available. FB OOMD handles this by
thresholding kills to X% of total swap usage. Let's do the same thing here.

Anecdotally with these thresholds and my laptop which is exclusively swap
on zram I can sit at 0K / 4G swap free with most of memory free and
systemd-oomd doesn't kill anything.

Partially addresses aggressive kill behavior from
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1941170
2021-04-05 02:04:49 -07:00

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<title>oomd.conf</title>
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<refentrytitle>oomd.conf</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
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<refnamediv>
<refname>oomd.conf</refname>
<refname>oomd.conf.d</refname>
<refpurpose>Global <command>systemd-oomd</command> configuration files</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<para><filename>/etc/systemd/oomd.conf</filename></para>
<para><filename>/etc/systemd/oomd.conf.d/*.conf</filename></para>
<para><filename>/usr/lib/systemd/oomd.conf.d/*.conf</filename></para>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<para>These files configure the various parameters of the
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry> userspace
out-of-memory (OOM) killer,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-oomd.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
See <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.syntax</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>
for a general description of the syntax.</para>
</refsect1>
<xi:include href="standard-conf.xml" xpointer="main-conf" />
<refsect1>
<title>[OOM] Section Options</title>
<para>The following options are available in the [OOM] section:</para>
<variablelist class='config-directives'>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>SwapUsedLimit=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>Sets the limit for swap usage on the system before <command>systemd-oomd</command>
will take action. If the fraction of swap used on the system is more than what is defined here,
<command>systemd-oomd</command> will act on eligible descendant control groups with swap usage greater
than 5% of total swap, starting from the ones with the highest swap usage. Which
control groups are monitored and what action gets taken depends on what the unit has configured for
<varname>ManagedOOMSwap=</varname>. Takes a value specified in percent (when suffixed with "%"),
permille ("‰") or permyriad ("‱"), between 0% and 100%, inclusive. Defaults to 90%.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>DefaultMemoryPressureLimit=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>Sets the limit for memory pressure on the unit's control group before
<command>systemd-oomd</command> will take action. A unit can override this value with
<varname>ManagedOOMMemoryPressureLimit=</varname>. The memory pressure for this property represents
the fraction of time in a 10 second window in which all tasks in the control group were delayed. For
each monitored control group, if the memory pressure on that control group exceeds the limit set for
longer than the duration set by <varname>DefaultMemoryPressureDurationSec=</varname>,
<command>systemd-oomd</command> will act on eligible descendant control groups, starting from the
ones with the most reclaim activity to the least reclaim activity. Which control groups are monitored
and what action gets taken depends on what the unit has configured for
<varname>ManagedOOMMemoryPressure=</varname>. Takes a fraction specified in the same way as
<varname>SwapUsedLimit=</varname> above. Defaults to 60%.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>DefaultMemoryPressureDurationSec=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>Sets the amount of time a unit's control group needs to have exceeded memory pressure
limits before <command>systemd-oomd</command> will take action. Memory pressure limits are defined by
<varname>DefaultMemoryPressureLimit=</varname> and <varname>ManagedOOMMemoryPressureLimit=</varname>.
Must be set to 0, or at least 1 second. Defaults to 30 seconds when unset or 0.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>See Also</title>
<para>
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.resource-control</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-oomd.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>oomctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
</para>
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