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ORG.FREEDESKTOP.OOM1(5) org.freedesktop.oom1 ORG.FREEDESKTOP.OOM1(5)

NAME

org.freedesktop.oom1 - The D-Bus interface of systemd-oomd

INTRODUCTION

systemd-oomd.service(8) is a system service which implements a userspace out-of-memory (OOM) killer. This page describes the D-Bus interface.

THE MANAGER OBJECT

The service exposes the following interfaces on the Manager object on the bus:

node /org/freedesktop/oom1 {


  interface org.freedesktop.oom1.Manager {


    methods:


      DumpByFileDescriptor(out h fd);


    signals:


      Killed(s cgroup,


             s reason);


  };


  interface org.freedesktop.DBus.Peer { ... };


  interface org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable { ... };


  interface org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties { ... };
};

Methods

Killed signal is sent when any cgroup is killed by oomd.

Note that more reasons will be added in the future, and the table below will be expanded accordingly.

Table 1. Killing reasons

Reason Description
memory-used Application took too much memory and swap.
memory-pressure Application took enough memory and swap to cause sufficient slowdown of other applications.

VERSIONING

These D-Bus interfaces follow
the usual interface versioning guidelines[1].

NOTES

1.
the usual interface versioning guidelines
http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/versioning-dbus.html
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