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<refentry id="systemd-system.conf"
    xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
  <refentryinfo>
    <title>systemd-system.conf</title>
    <productname>systemd</productname>
  </refentryinfo>

  <refmeta>
    <refentrytitle>systemd-system.conf</refentrytitle>
    <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
  </refmeta>

  <refnamediv>
    <refname>systemd-system.conf</refname>
    <refname>system.conf.d</refname>
    <refname>systemd-user.conf</refname>
    <refname>user.conf.d</refname>
    <refpurpose>System and session service manager configuration files</refpurpose>
  </refnamediv>

  <refsynopsisdiv>
    <para><filename>/etc/systemd/system.conf</filename>,
    <filename>/run/systemd/system.conf</filename>,
    <filename>/usr/lib/systemd/system.conf</filename>,
    <filename>/etc/systemd/system.conf.d/*.conf</filename>,
    <filename>/run/systemd/system.conf.d/*.conf</filename>,
    <filename>/usr/lib/systemd/system.conf.d/*.conf</filename></para>

    <para><filename>~/.config/systemd/user.conf</filename>,
    <filename>/etc/systemd/user.conf</filename>,
    <filename>/run/systemd/user.conf</filename>,
    <filename>/usr/lib/systemd/user.conf</filename>,
    <filename>/etc/systemd/user.conf.d/*.conf</filename>,
    <filename>/run/systemd/user.conf.d/*.conf</filename>,
    <filename>/usr/lib/systemd/user.conf.d/*.conf</filename></para>
  </refsynopsisdiv>

  <refsect1>
    <title>Description</title>

    <para>When run as a system instance, <command>systemd</command> interprets the configuration file
    <filename>system.conf</filename> and the files in <filename>system.conf.d</filename> directories; when
    run as a user instance, it interprets the configuration file <filename>user.conf</filename> (in order of
    priority, in the home directory of the user and under <filename>/etc/systemd/</filename>,
    <filename>/run/systemd/</filename>, and <filename>/usr/lib/systemd/</filename>) and the files in
    <filename>user.conf.d</filename> directories. These configuration files contain a few settings
    controlling basic manager operations.</para>

    <para>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>Options</title>

    <para>All options are configured in the
    [Manager] section:</para>

    <variablelist class='config-directives'>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><varname>LogColor=</varname></term>
        <term><varname>LogLevel=</varname></term>
        <term><varname>LogLocation=</varname></term>
        <term><varname>LogTarget=</varname></term>
        <term><varname>LogTime=</varname></term>
        <term><varname>DumpCore=yes</varname></term>
        <term><varname>CrashChangeVT=no</varname></term>
        <term><varname>CrashShell=no</varname></term>
        <term><varname>CrashAction=freeze</varname></term>
        <term><varname>ShowStatus=yes</varname></term>
        <term><varname>DefaultStandardOutput=journal</varname></term>
        <term><varname>DefaultStandardError=inherit</varname></term>

        <listitem><para>Configures various parameters of basic manager operation. These options may be overridden by
        the respective process and kernel command line arguments. See
        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry> for
        details.</para>

        <xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v198"/></listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><varname>CtrlAltDelBurstAction=</varname></term>

        <listitem><para>Defines what action will be performed
        if user presses Ctrl-Alt-Delete more than 7 times in 2s.
        Can be set to <literal>reboot-force</literal>, <literal>poweroff-force</literal>,
        <literal>reboot-immediate</literal>, <literal>poweroff-immediate</literal>
        or disabled with <literal>none</literal>. Defaults to
        <literal>reboot-force</literal>.
        </para>

        <xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v232"/></listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><varname>CPUAffinity=</varname></term>

        <listitem><para>Configures the CPU affinity for the service manager as well as the default CPU
        affinity for all forked off processes. Takes a list of CPU indices or ranges separated by either
        whitespace or commas. CPU ranges are specified by the lower and upper CPU indices separated by a
        dash. This option may be specified more than once, in which case the specified CPU affinity masks are
        merged. If the empty string is assigned, the mask is reset, all assignments prior to this will have
        no effect. Individual services may override the CPU affinity for their processes with the
        <varname>CPUAffinity=</varname> setting in unit files, see
        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.exec</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>

        <xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v198"/></listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><varname>NUMAPolicy=</varname></term>

        <listitem><para>Configures the NUMA memory policy for the service manager and the default NUMA memory policy
        for all forked off processes. Individual services may override the default policy with the
        <varname>NUMAPolicy=</varname> setting in unit files, see
        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.exec</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>

        <xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v243"/></listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><varname>NUMAMask=</varname></term>

        <listitem><para>Configures the NUMA node mask that will be associated with the selected NUMA policy. Note that
        <option>default</option> and <option>local</option> NUMA policies don't require explicit NUMA node mask and
        value of the option can be empty. Similarly to <varname>NUMAPolicy=</varname>, value can be overridden
        by individual services in unit files, see
        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.exec</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>

        <xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v243"/></listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><varname>RuntimeWatchdogSec=</varname></term>
        <term><varname>RebootWatchdogSec=</varname></term>
        <term><varname>KExecWatchdogSec=</varname></term>

        <listitem><para>Configure the hardware watchdog at runtime and at reboot. Takes a timeout value in
        seconds (or in other time units if suffixed with <literal>ms</literal>, <literal>min</literal>,
        <literal>h</literal>, <literal>d</literal>, <literal>w</literal>), or the special strings
        <literal>off</literal> or <literal>default</literal>. If set to <literal>off</literal>
        (alternatively: <literal>0</literal>) the watchdog logic is disabled: no watchdog device is opened,
        configured, or pinged. If set to the special string <literal>default</literal> the watchdog is opened
        and pinged in regular intervals, but the timeout is not changed from the default. If set to any other
        time value the watchdog timeout is configured to the specified value (or a value close to it,
        depending on hardware capabilities).</para>

        <para>If <varname>RuntimeWatchdogSec=</varname> is set to a non-zero value, the watchdog hardware
        (<filename>/dev/watchdog0</filename> or the path specified with <varname>WatchdogDevice=</varname> or
        the kernel option <varname>systemd.watchdog-device=</varname>) will be programmed to automatically
        reboot the system if it is not contacted within the specified timeout interval. The system manager
        will ensure to contact it at least once in half the specified timeout interval. This feature requires
        a hardware watchdog device to be present, as it is commonly the case in embedded and server
        systems. Not all hardware watchdogs allow configuration of all possible reboot timeout values, in
        which case the closest available timeout is picked.</para>

        <para><varname>RebootWatchdogSec=</varname> may be used to configure the hardware watchdog when the
        system is asked to reboot. It works as a safety net to ensure that the reboot takes place even if a
        clean reboot attempt times out. Note that the <varname>RebootWatchdogSec=</varname> timeout applies
        only to the second phase of the reboot, i.e. after all regular services are already terminated, and
        after the system and service manager process (PID 1) got replaced by the
        <filename>systemd-shutdown</filename> binary, see system
        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>bootup</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry> for
        details. During the first phase of the shutdown operation the system and service manager remains
        running and hence <varname>RuntimeWatchdogSec=</varname> is still honoured. In order to define a
        timeout on this first phase of system shutdown, configure <varname>JobTimeoutSec=</varname> and
        <varname>JobTimeoutAction=</varname> in the [Unit] section of the
        <filename>shutdown.target</filename> unit. By default <varname>RuntimeWatchdogSec=</varname> defaults
        to 0 (off), and <varname>RebootWatchdogSec=</varname> to 10min.</para>

        <para><varname>KExecWatchdogSec=</varname> may be used to additionally enable the watchdog when kexec
        is being executed rather than when rebooting. Note that if the kernel does not reset the watchdog on
        kexec (depending on the specific hardware and/or driver), in this case the watchdog might not get
        disabled after kexec succeeds and thus the system might get rebooted, unless
        <varname>RuntimeWatchdogSec=</varname> is also enabled at the same time.  For this reason it is
        recommended to enable <varname>KExecWatchdogSec=</varname> only if
        <varname>RuntimeWatchdogSec=</varname> is also enabled.</para>

        <para>These settings have no effect if a hardware watchdog is not available.</para>

        <xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v198"/></listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><varname>RuntimeWatchdogPreSec=</varname></term>

        <listitem><para>Configure the hardware watchdog device pre-timeout value.
        Takes a timeout value in seconds (or in other time units similar to
        <varname>RuntimeWatchdogSec=</varname>). A watchdog pre-timeout is a
        notification generated by the watchdog before the watchdog reset might
        occur in the event the watchdog has not been serviced. This notification
        is handled by the kernel and can be configured to take an action (i.e.
        generate a kernel panic) using <varname>RuntimeWatchdogPreGovernor=</varname>.
        Not all watchdog hardware or drivers support generating a pre-timeout and
        depending on the state of the system, the kernel may be unable to take the
        configured action before the watchdog reboot. The watchdog will be configured
        to generate the pre-timeout event at the amount of time specified by
        <varname>RuntimeWatchdogPreSec=</varname> before the runtime watchdog timeout
        (set by <varname>RuntimeWatchdogSec=</varname>). For example, if the we have
        <varname>RuntimeWatchdogSec=30</varname> and
        <varname>RuntimeWatchdogPreSec=10</varname>, then the pre-timeout event
        will occur if the watchdog has not pinged for 20s (10s before the
        watchdog would fire). By default, <varname>RuntimeWatchdogPreSec=</varname>
        defaults to 0 (off). The value set for <varname>RuntimeWatchdogPreSec=</varname>
        must be smaller than the timeout value for <varname>RuntimeWatchdogSec=</varname>.
        This setting has no effect if a hardware watchdog is not available or the
        hardware watchdog does not support a pre-timeout and will be ignored by the
        kernel if the setting is greater than the actual watchdog timeout.</para>

        <xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v251"/></listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><varname>RuntimeWatchdogPreGovernor=</varname></term>

        <listitem><para>Configure the action taken by the hardware watchdog device
        when the pre-timeout expires. The default action for the pre-timeout event
        depends on the kernel configuration, but it is usually to log a kernel
        message. For a list of valid actions available for a given watchdog device,
        check the content of the
        <filename>/sys/class/watchdog/watchdog<replaceable>X</replaceable>/pretimeout_available_governors</filename>
        file. Typically, available governor types are <varname>noop</varname> and <varname>panic</varname>.
        Availability, names and functionality might vary depending on the specific device driver
        in use. If the <filename>pretimeout_available_governors</filename> sysfs file is empty,
        the governor might be built as a kernel module and might need to be manually loaded
        (e.g. <varname>pretimeout_noop.ko</varname>), or the watchdog device might not support
        pre-timeouts.</para>

        <xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v251"/></listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><varname>WatchdogDevice=</varname></term>

        <listitem><para>Configure the hardware watchdog device that the
        runtime and shutdown watchdog timers will open and use. Defaults
        to <filename>/dev/watchdog0</filename>. This setting has no
        effect if a hardware watchdog is not available.</para>

        <xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v236"/></listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><varname>CapabilityBoundingSet=</varname></term>

        <listitem><para>Controls which capabilities to include in the
        capability bounding set for PID 1 and its children. See
        <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>capabilities</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>
        for details. Takes a whitespace-separated list of capability
        names as read by
        <citerefentry project='mankier'><refentrytitle>cap_from_name</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
        Capabilities listed will be included in the bounding set, all
        others are removed. If the list of capabilities is prefixed
        with ~, all but the listed capabilities will be included, the
        effect of the assignment inverted. Note that this option also
        affects the respective capabilities in the effective,
        permitted and inheritable capability sets. The capability
        bounding set may also be individually configured for units
        using the <varname>CapabilityBoundingSet=</varname> directive
        for units, but note that capabilities dropped for PID 1 cannot
        be regained in individual units, they are lost for
        good.</para>

        <xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v198"/></listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><varname>NoNewPrivileges=</varname></term>

        <listitem><para>Takes a boolean argument. If true, ensures that PID 1
        and all its children can never gain new privileges through
        <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>execve</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>
        (e.g. via setuid or setgid bits, or filesystem capabilities).
        Defaults to false. General purpose distributions commonly rely
        on executables with setuid or setgid bits and will thus not
        function properly with this option enabled. Individual units
        cannot disable this option.
        Also see <ulink url="https://docs.kernel.org/userspace-api/no_new_privs.html">No New Privileges Flag</ulink>.
        </para>

        <xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v239"/></listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><varname>ProtectSystem=</varname></term>

        <listitem><para>Takes a boolean argument or the string <literal>auto</literal>. If set to true this
        will remount <filename>/usr/</filename> read-only. If set to <literal>auto</literal> (the default)
        and running in an initrd equivalent to true, otherwise false. This implements a restricted subset of
        the per-unit setting of the same name, see
        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.exec</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> for
        details: currently, the <literal>full</literal> or <literal>struct</literal> values are not
        supported.</para>

        <xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v256"/></listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><varname>SystemCallArchitectures=</varname></term>

        <listitem><para>Takes a space-separated list of architecture
        identifiers. Selects from which architectures system calls may
        be invoked on this system. This may be used as an effective
        way to disable invocation of non-native binaries system-wide,
        for example to prohibit execution of 32-bit x86 binaries on
        64-bit x86-64 systems. This option operates system-wide, and
        acts similar to the
        <varname>SystemCallArchitectures=</varname> setting of unit
        files, see
        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.exec</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
        for details. This setting defaults to the empty list, in which
        case no filtering of system calls based on architecture is
        applied. Known architecture identifiers are
        <literal>x86</literal>, <literal>x86-64</literal>,
        <literal>x32</literal>, <literal>arm</literal> and the special
        identifier <literal>native</literal>. The latter implicitly
        maps to the native architecture of the system (or more
        specifically, the architecture the system manager was compiled
        for). Set this setting to <literal>native</literal> to
        prohibit execution of any non-native binaries. When a binary
        executes a system call of an architecture that is not listed
        in this setting, it will be immediately terminated with the
        SIGSYS signal.</para>

        <xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v209"/></listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><varname>TimerSlackNSec=</varname></term>

        <listitem><para>Sets the timer slack in nanoseconds for PID 1,
        which is inherited by all executed processes, unless
        overridden individually, for example with the
        <varname>TimerSlackNSec=</varname> setting in service units
        (for details see
        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.exec</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>).
        The timer slack controls the accuracy of wake-ups triggered by
        system timers. See
        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>prctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>
        for more information. Note that in contrast to most other time
        span definitions this parameter takes an integer value in
        nano-seconds if no unit is specified. The usual time units are
        understood too.</para>

        <xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v198"/></listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><varname>StatusUnitFormat=</varname></term>

        <listitem><para>Takes <option>name</option>, <option>description</option> or
        <option>combined</option> as the value. If <option>name</option>, the system manager will use unit
        names in status messages (e.g. <literal>systemd-journald.service</literal>), instead of the longer
        and more informative descriptions set with <varname>Description=</varname> (e.g. <literal>Journal
        Logging Service</literal>). If <option>combined</option>, the system manager will use both unit names
        and descriptions in status messages (e.g. <literal>systemd-journald.service - Journal Logging
        Service</literal>).</para>

        <para>See
        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> for
        details about unit names and <varname>Description=</varname>.</para>

        <xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v243"/></listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><varname>DefaultTimerAccuracySec=</varname></term>

        <listitem><para>Sets the default accuracy of timer units. This
        controls the global default for the
        <varname>AccuracySec=</varname> setting of timer units, see
        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.timer</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
        for details. <varname>AccuracySec=</varname> set in individual
        units override the global default for the specific unit.
        Defaults to 1min. Note that the accuracy of timer units is
        also affected by the configured timer slack for PID 1, see
        <varname>TimerSlackNSec=</varname> above.</para>

        <xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v212"/></listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><varname>DefaultTimeoutStartSec=</varname></term>
        <term><varname>DefaultTimeoutStopSec=</varname></term>
        <term><varname>DefaultTimeoutAbortSec=</varname></term>
        <term><varname>DefaultRestartSec=</varname></term>

        <listitem><para>Configures the default timeouts for starting, stopping and aborting of units, as well
        as the default time to sleep between automatic restarts of units, as configured per-unit in
        <varname>TimeoutStartSec=</varname>, <varname>TimeoutStopSec=</varname>,
        <varname>TimeoutAbortSec=</varname> and <varname>RestartSec=</varname> (for services, see
        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
        for details on the per-unit settings). For non-service units,
        <varname>DefaultTimeoutStartSec=</varname> sets the default <varname>TimeoutSec=</varname> value.
        </para>

        <para><varname>DefaultTimeoutStartSec=</varname> and <varname>DefaultTimeoutStopSec=</varname>
        default to &DEFAULT_TIMEOUT; in the system manager and &DEFAULT_USER_TIMEOUT; in the user manager.
        <varname>DefaultTimeoutAbortSec=</varname> is not set by default so that all units fall back to
        <varname>TimeoutStopSec=</varname>. <varname>DefaultRestartSec=</varname> defaults to 100 ms.
        </para>

        <xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v209"/></listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><varname>DefaultDeviceTimeoutSec=</varname></term>

        <listitem><para>Configures the default timeout for waiting for devices. It can be changed per
        device via the <varname>x-systemd.device-timeout=</varname> option in <filename>/etc/fstab</filename>
        and <filename>/etc/crypttab</filename> (see
        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.mount</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>crypttab</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>).
        Defaults to &DEFAULT_TIMEOUT; in the system manager and &DEFAULT_USER_TIMEOUT; in the user manager.
        </para>

        <xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v252"/></listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><varname>DefaultStartLimitIntervalSec=</varname></term>
        <term><varname>DefaultStartLimitBurst=</varname></term>

        <listitem><para>Configure the default unit start rate
        limiting, as configured per-service by
        <varname>StartLimitIntervalSec=</varname> and
        <varname>StartLimitBurst=</varname>. See
        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
        for details on the per-service settings.
        <varname>DefaultStartLimitIntervalSec=</varname> defaults to
        10s. <varname>DefaultStartLimitBurst=</varname> defaults to
        5.</para>

        <xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v209"/></listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><varname>DefaultEnvironment=</varname></term>

        <listitem><para>Configures environment variables passed to all executed processes. Takes a
        space-separated list of variable assignments. See <citerefentry
        project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>environ</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry> for
        details about environment variables.</para>

        <para>Simple <literal>%</literal>-specifier expansion is supported, see below for a list of supported
        specifiers.</para>

        <para>Example:

        <programlisting>DefaultEnvironment="VAR1=word1 word2" VAR2=word3 "VAR3=word 5 6"</programlisting>

        Sets three variables
        <literal>VAR1</literal>,
        <literal>VAR2</literal>,
        <literal>VAR3</literal>.</para>

        <xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v205"/></listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><varname>ManagerEnvironment=</varname></term>

        <listitem><para>Takes the same arguments as <varname>DefaultEnvironment=</varname>, see above. Sets
        environment variables just for the manager process itself. In contrast to user managers, these variables
        are not inherited by processes spawned by the system manager, use <varname>DefaultEnvironment=</varname>
        for that. Note that these variables are merged into the existing environment block. In particular, in
        case of the system manager, this includes variables set by the kernel based on the kernel command line.</para>

        <para>Setting environment variables for the manager process may be useful to modify its behaviour.
        See <ulink url="https://systemd.io/ENVIRONMENT">Known Environment Variables</ulink> for a
        descriptions of some variables understood by <command>systemd</command>.</para>

        <para>Simple <literal>%</literal>-specifier expansion is supported, see below for a list of supported
        specifiers.</para>

        <xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v248"/>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><varname>DefaultCPUAccounting=</varname></term>
        <term><varname>DefaultMemoryAccounting=</varname></term>
        <term><varname>DefaultTasksAccounting=</varname></term>
        <term><varname>DefaultIOAccounting=</varname></term>
        <term><varname>DefaultIPAccounting=</varname></term>

        <listitem>
        <para>Configure the default resource accounting settings, as configured per-unit by
        <varname>CPUAccounting=</varname>, <varname>MemoryAccounting=</varname>,
        <varname>TasksAccounting=</varname>, <varname>IOAccounting=</varname> and
        <varname>IPAccounting=</varname>. See
        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.resource-control</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
        for details on the per-unit settings.</para>

        <para><varname>DefaultCPUAccounting=</varname> defaults to yes when running on kernel ≥4.15, and no on older versions.
        <varname>DefaultMemoryAccounting=</varname> defaults to &MEMORY_ACCOUNTING_DEFAULT;.
        <varname>DefaultTasksAccounting=</varname> defaults to yes.
        The other settings default to no.</para>

        <xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v211"/>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><varname>DefaultTasksMax=</varname></term>

        <listitem><para>Configure the default value for the per-unit <varname>TasksMax=</varname> setting. See
        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.resource-control</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
        for details. This setting applies to all unit types that support resource control settings, with the exception
        of slice units. Defaults to 15% of the minimum of <varname>kernel.pid_max=</varname>, <varname>kernel.threads-max=</varname>
        and root cgroup <varname>pids.max</varname>.
        Kernel has a default value for <varname>kernel.pid_max=</varname> and an algorithm of counting in case of more than 32 cores.
        For example, with the default <varname>kernel.pid_max=</varname>, <varname>DefaultTasksMax=</varname> defaults to 4915,
        but might be greater in other systems or smaller in OS containers.</para>

        <xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v228"/></listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><varname>DefaultLimitCPU=</varname></term>
        <term><varname>DefaultLimitFSIZE=</varname></term>
        <term><varname>DefaultLimitDATA=</varname></term>
        <term><varname>DefaultLimitSTACK=</varname></term>
        <term><varname>DefaultLimitCORE=</varname></term>
        <term><varname>DefaultLimitRSS=</varname></term>
        <term><varname>DefaultLimitNOFILE=</varname></term>
        <term><varname>DefaultLimitAS=</varname></term>
        <term><varname>DefaultLimitNPROC=</varname></term>
        <term><varname>DefaultLimitMEMLOCK=</varname></term>
        <term><varname>DefaultLimitLOCKS=</varname></term>
        <term><varname>DefaultLimitSIGPENDING=</varname></term>
        <term><varname>DefaultLimitMSGQUEUE=</varname></term>
        <term><varname>DefaultLimitNICE=</varname></term>
        <term><varname>DefaultLimitRTPRIO=</varname></term>
        <term><varname>DefaultLimitRTTIME=</varname></term>

        <listitem><para>These settings control various default resource limits for processes executed by
        units. See
        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>setrlimit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry> for
        details. These settings may be overridden in individual units using the corresponding
        <varname>LimitXXX=</varname> directives and they accept the same parameter syntax,
        see <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.exec</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
        for details. Note that these resource limits are only defaults
        for units, they are not applied to the service manager process (i.e. PID 1) itself.</para>

        <para>Most of these settings are unset, which means the resource limits are inherited from the kernel or, if
        invoked in a container, from the container manager. However, the following have defaults:</para>
        <itemizedlist>
          <listitem><para><varname>DefaultLimitNOFILE=</varname> defaults to 1024:&HIGH_RLIMIT_NOFILE;.
          </para></listitem>

          <listitem><para><varname>DefaultLimitMEMLOCK=</varname> defaults to 8M.</para></listitem>

          <listitem><para><varname>DefaultLimitCORE=</varname> does not have a default but it is worth mentioning that
          <varname>RLIMIT_CORE</varname> is set to <literal>infinity</literal> by PID 1 which is inherited by its
          children.</para></listitem>
        </itemizedlist>

        <para>Note that the service manager internally in PID 1 bumps <varname>RLIMIT_NOFILE</varname> and
        <varname>RLIMIT_MEMLOCK</varname> to higher values, however the limit is reverted to the mentioned
        defaults for all child processes forked off.</para>

        <xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v198"/>
      </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><varname>DefaultOOMPolicy=</varname></term>

        <listitem><para>Configure the default policy for reacting to processes being killed by the Linux
        Out-Of-Memory (OOM) killer or <command>systemd-oomd</command>. This may be used to pick a global default for the per-unit
        <varname>OOMPolicy=</varname> setting. See
        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
        for details. Note that this default is not used for services that have <varname>Delegate=</varname>
        turned on.</para>

        <xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v243"/></listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><varname>DefaultOOMScoreAdjust=</varname></term>

        <listitem><para>Configures the default OOM score adjustments of processes run by the service
        manager. This defaults to unset (meaning the forked off processes inherit the service manager's OOM
        score adjustment value), except if the service manager is run for an unprivileged user, in which case
        this defaults to the service manager's OOM adjustment value plus 100 (this makes service processes
        slightly more likely to be killed under memory pressure than the manager itself). This may be used to
        pick a global default for the per-unit <varname>OOMScoreAdjust=</varname> setting. See
        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.exec</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> for
        details. Note that this setting has no effect on the OOM score adjustment value of the service
        manager process itself, it retains the original value set during its invocation.</para>

        <xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v250"/></listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><varname>DefaultSmackProcessLabel=</varname></term>

        <listitem><para>Takes a <option>SMACK64</option> security label as the argument. The process executed
        by a unit will be started under this label if <varname>SmackProcessLabel=</varname> is not set in the
        unit. See <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.exec</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
        for the details.</para>

        <para>If the value is <literal>/</literal>, only labels specified with <varname>SmackProcessLabel=</varname>
        are assigned and the compile-time default is ignored.</para>

        <xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v252"/></listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><varname>ReloadLimitIntervalSec=</varname></term>
        <term><varname>ReloadLimitBurst=</varname></term>

        <listitem><para>Rate limiting for daemon-reload and (since v256) daemon-reexec requests. The setting
        applies to both operations, but the rate limits are tracked separately. Defaults to unset, and any
        number of operations can be requested at any time. <varname>ReloadLimitIntervalSec=</varname> takes
        a value in seconds to configure the rate limit window, and <varname>ReloadLimitBurst=</varname>
        takes a positive integer to configure the maximum allowed number of operations within the configured
        time window.</para>

        <xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v253"/></listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><varname>DefaultMemoryPressureWatch=</varname></term>
        <term><varname>DefaultMemoryPressureThresholdSec=</varname></term>

        <listitem><para>Configures the default settings for the per-unit
        <varname>MemoryPressureWatch=</varname> and <varname>MemoryPressureThresholdSec=</varname>
        settings. See
        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.resource-control</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
        for details. Defaults to <literal>auto</literal> and <literal>200ms</literal>, respectively. This
        also sets the memory pressure monitoring threshold for the service manager itself.</para>

        <xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v254"/></listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>Specifiers</title>

    <para>Specifiers may be used in the <varname>DefaultEnvironment=</varname> and
    <varname>ManagerEnvironment=</varname> settings. The following expansions are understood:</para>
      <table class='specifiers'>
        <title>Specifiers available</title>
        <tgroup cols='3' align='left' colsep='1' rowsep='1'>
          <colspec colname="spec" />
          <colspec colname="mean" />
          <colspec colname="detail" />
          <thead>
            <row>
              <entry>Specifier</entry>
              <entry>Meaning</entry>
              <entry>Details</entry>
            </row>
          </thead>
          <tbody>
            <xi:include href="standard-specifiers.xml" xpointer="a"/>
            <xi:include href="standard-specifiers.xml" xpointer="A"/>
            <xi:include href="standard-specifiers.xml" xpointer="b"/>
            <xi:include href="standard-specifiers.xml" xpointer="B"/>
            <xi:include href="standard-specifiers.xml" xpointer="H"/>
            <xi:include href="standard-specifiers.xml" xpointer="l"/>
            <xi:include href="standard-specifiers.xml" xpointer="m"/>
            <xi:include href="standard-specifiers.xml" xpointer="M"/>
            <xi:include href="standard-specifiers.xml" xpointer="o"/>
            <xi:include href="standard-specifiers.xml" xpointer="v"/>
            <xi:include href="standard-specifiers.xml" xpointer="w"/>
            <xi:include href="standard-specifiers.xml" xpointer="W"/>
            <xi:include href="standard-specifiers.xml" xpointer="T"/>
            <xi:include href="standard-specifiers.xml" xpointer="V"/>
            <row>
              <entry><literal>%h</literal></entry>
              <entry>User home directory</entry>
              <entry>This is the home directory of the <emphasis>user running the service manager instance</emphasis>.</entry>
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry><literal>%u</literal></entry>
              <entry>Username</entry>
              <entry>This is the username of the <emphasis>user running the service manager instance</emphasis>.</entry>
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry><literal>%U</literal></entry>
              <entry>User id</entry>
              <entry>This is the user id of the <emphasis>user running the service manager instance</emphasis>.</entry>
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry><literal>%g</literal></entry>
              <entry>Primary group</entry>
              <entry>This is the primary group of the <emphasis>user running the service manager instance</emphasis>.</entry>
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry><literal>%G</literal></entry>
              <entry>Primary group id</entry>
              <entry>This is the primary group id of the <emphasis>user running the service manager instance</emphasis>.</entry>
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry><literal>%s</literal></entry>
              <entry>User shell</entry>
              <entry>This is the shell of the <emphasis>user running the service manager instance</emphasis>.</entry>
            </row>
            <xi:include href="standard-specifiers.xml" xpointer="percent"/>
          </tbody>
        </tgroup>
      </table>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
      <title>History</title>

      <variablelist>
        <varlistentry>
          <term>systemd 252</term>
          <listitem><para>Option <varname>DefaultBlockIOAccounting=</varname> was deprecated. Please switch
          to the unified cgroup hierarchy.</para>

          <xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v252"/></listitem>
        </varlistentry>
      </variablelist>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
      <title>See Also</title>
      <para><simplelist type="inline">
        <member><citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
        <member><citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.directives</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
        <member><citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.exec</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
        <member><citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
        <member><citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>environ</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
        <member><citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>capabilities</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
      </simplelist></para>
  </refsect1>

</refentry>