<refnamediv>
<refname>systemd.cgroup</refname>
- <refpurpose>Cgroup configuration unit settings</refpurpose>
+ <refpurpose>Control Group configuration unit settings</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
configuration options which configure the control group settings
for spawned processes.</para>
+ <para>Control Groups is a concept for organizing processes in a
+ hierarch tree of named groups for the purpose of resource
+ management.</para>
+
<para>This man page lists the configuration options shared by
those six unit types. See
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
<listitem>
<para>The name of the slice unit to place the unit
in. Defaults to <filename>system.slice</filename> for all
- unit types, except for slice units themselves. This may be
- used to arrange systemd units in a hierarchy of slices each
- of which might have resource settings applied.</para>
+ non-instantiated units of all unit types (except for slice
+ units themselves see below). Instance units are by default
+ placed in a subslice of <filename>system.slice</filename>
+ that is named after the template name.</para>
+
+ <para>This option may be used to arrange systemd units in a
+ hierarchy of slices each of which might have resource
+ settings applied.</para>
- <para>For units of type slice the only accepted value for
+ <para>For units of type slice, the only accepted value for
this setting is the parent slice. Since the name of a slice
- unit implies the parent slice it is hence redundant to ever
+ unit implies the parent slice, it is hence redundant to ever
set this parameter directly for slice units.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>