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systemd System and Service Manager
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+ * The MemoryAccounting= unit property now defaults to on. After
+ discussions with the upstream control group maintainers we learnt
+ that the negative impact of cgroup memory accounting on current
+ kernels is finally relatively minimal, so that it should be safe to
+ enable this by default without affecting system performance too
+ much. Besides memory accounting only tasks accounting is turned on by
+ default, all other forms of resource accounting (CPU, IO, IP) remain
+ off for now, because it's not clear yet that their impact is small
+ enough to move from opt-in to opt-out for them, too. We recommend
+ downstreams to leave memory accounting on by default, however in some
+ situations it might be wise to revert this change of defaults, in
+ particular on very resource constrained systems or when support for
+ old kernels is a necessity.
+
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