| NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | AUTOMATIC DEPENDENCIES | SEE ALSO | NOTES | COLOPHON |  | 
SYSTEMD.SLICE(5)                systemd.slice               SYSTEMD.SLICE(5)
       systemd.slice - Slice unit configuration
       slice.slice
       A unit configuration file whose name ends in ".slice" encodes
       information about a slice which is a concept for hierarchically
       managing resources of a group of processes. This management is
       performed by creating a node in the Linux Control Group (cgroup)
       tree. Units that manage processes (primarily scope and service units)
       may be assigned to a specific slice. For each slice, certain resource
       limits may be set that apply to all processes of all units contained
       in that slice. Slices are organized hierarchically in a tree. The
       name of the slice encodes the location in the tree. The name consists
       of a dash-separated series of names, which describes the path to the
       slice from the root slice. The root slice is named, -.slice. Example:
       foo-bar.slice is a slice that is located within foo.slice, which in
       turn is located in the root slice -.slice.
       Note that slice units cannot be templated, nor is possible to add
       multiple names to a slice unit by creating additional symlinks to it.
       By default, service and scope units are placed in system.slice,
       virtual machines and containers registered with systemd-machined(1)
       are found in machine.slice, and user sessions handled by
       systemd-logind(1) in user.slice. See systemd.special(5) for more
       information.
       See systemd.unit(5) for the common options of all unit configuration
       files. The common configuration items are configured in the generic
       [Unit] and [Install] sections. The slice specific configuration
       options are configured in the [Slice] section. Currently, only
       generic resource control settings as described in
       systemd.resource-control(5) are allowed.
       See the New Control Group Interfaces[1] for an introduction on how to
       make use of slice units from programs.
       Slice units automatically gain dependencies of type After= and
       Requires= on their immediate parent slice unit.
       Unless DefaultDependencies=false is used in the "[Unit]" section,
       slice units will implicitly have dependencies of type Conflicts= and
       Before= on shutdown.target. These ensure that slice units are removed
       prior to system shutdown. Only slice units involved with early boot
       or late system shutdown should disable this option.
       systemd(1), systemd.unit(5), systemd.resource-control(5),
       systemd.service(5), systemd.scope(5), systemd.special(7),
       systemd.directives(7)
        1. New Control Group Interfaces
           https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/ControlGroupInterface/
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Pages that refer to this page: systemd(1), systemd-nspawn(1), systemd-run(1), sd_bus_creds_get_pid(3), sd_pid_get_session(3), systemd.resource-control(5), systemd.service(5), systemd.unit(5), systemd.directives(7), systemd.index(7), systemd.special(7), pam_systemd(8)