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resource limits for units. See
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>setrlimit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>
for details. Use the string <varname>infinity</varname> to
- configure no limit on a specific resource. These settings may
- be overridden in individual units using the corresponding
+ configure no limit on a specific resource. The multiplicative suffixes
+ K (=1024), M (=1024*1024) and so on for G, T, P and E may be used for
+ resource limits measured in bytes (e.g. DefaultLimitAS=16G). These
+ settings may be overridden in individual units using the corresponding
LimitXXX= directives. Note that these resource limits are only
defaults for units, they are not applied to PID 1
itself.</para></listitem>