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6 systemd.slice - Slice unit configuration
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12 A unit configuration file whose name ends in ".slice" encodes
13 information about a slice unit. A slice unit is a concept for
14 hierarchically managing resources of a group of processes. This
15 management is performed by creating a node in the Linux Control Group
16 (cgroup) tree. Units that manage processes (primarily scope and service
17 units) may be assigned to a specific slice. For each slice, certain
18 resource limits may be set that apply to all processes of all units
19 contained in that slice. Slices are organized hierarchically in a tree.
20 The name of the slice encodes the location in the tree. The name
21 consists of a dash-separated series of names, which describes the path
22 to the slice from the root slice. The root slice is named -.slice.
23 Example: foo-bar.slice is a slice that is located within foo.slice,
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26 Note that slice units cannot be templated, nor is possible to add
27 multiple names to a slice unit by creating additional symlinks to its
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30 By default, service and scope units are placed in system.slice, virtual
31 machines and containers registered with systemd-machined(8) are found
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35 See systemd.unit(5) for the common options of all unit configuration
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37 [Unit] and [Install] sections. The slice specific configuration options
38 are configured in the [Slice] section. Currently, only generic resource
39 control settings as described in systemd.resource-control(5) are
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46 Implicit Dependencies
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49 · Slice units automatically gain dependencies of type After= and
50 Requires= on their immediate parent slice unit.
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68 https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/ControlGroupInterface/
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