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NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | COMMANDS | OPTIONS | EXIT STATUS | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON 

OOMCTL(1)                        oomctl                        OOMCTL(1)

NAME         top

       oomctl - Analyze the state stored in systemd-oomd

SYNOPSIS         top


       oomctl [OPTIONS...] {COMMAND}

DESCRIPTION         top

       oomctl may be used to get information about the various contexts
       read in by the systemd(1) userspace out-of-memory (OOM) killer,
       systemd-oomd(8).

COMMANDS         top

       The following commands are understood:

       dump
           Show the current state of the cgroups and system contexts
           stored by systemd-oomd.

           Added in version 247.

OPTIONS         top

       The following options are understood:

       -h, --help
           Print a short help text and exit.

       --version
           Print a short version string and exit.

       --no-pager
           Do not pipe output into a pager.

EXIT STATUS         top

       On success, 0 is returned, a non-zero failure code otherwise.

SEE ALSO         top

       systemd(1), systemd-oomd.service(8), oomd.conf(5)

COLOPHON         top

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systemd 257~devel                                              OOMCTL(1)

Pages that refer to this page: oomd.conf(5),  systemd.directives(7),  systemd.index(7),  systemd-oomd.service(8)

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