oomctl(1)

oomctl1

Analyze the state stored in systemd-oomd

Usage

oomctl [OPTIONS ...] COMMAND

Overview

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

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

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

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

Releases

3 releases since Debian 12 (Bookworm); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 12
  2. 13
  3. Arch

From systemd 262.1-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.