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oomctl(1)

OOMCTL(1) oomctl OOMCTL(1)


.SH "NAME" oomctl - Analyze the state stored in systemd-oomd


.SH "SYNOPSIS"


.HP 168u


oomctl
[OPTIONS...]
{COMMAND}


.SH "DESCRIPTION"


.PP 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).


.SH "COMMANDS"


.PP The following commands are understood:


.PP dump


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


Added in version 247.


.RE


.SH "OPTIONS"


.PP The following options are understood:


.PP -h, --help


Print a short help text and exit.


.RE
.PP --version


Print a short version string and exit.


.RE
.PP --no-pager


Do not pipe output into a pager.


.RE


.SH "EXIT STATUS"


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


.SH "SEE ALSO"


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

systemd 262.2

systemd 262.2-r1 · os · ingested 2026-11-06