In /etc/rc.conf, the following config option is misspelled: BAD: rc_cggroup_memory_use_hierarchy GOOD: rc_cgroup_memory_use_hierarchy From /etc/init.d/cgroups: yesno "${rc_cgroup_memory_use_hierarchy:-no}" && [ "${name}" = memory ] && echo 1 > /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/memory.use_hierarchy
https://github.com/openrc/openrc/commit/ee41e444 This will be included in 0.40.