diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 78189ce5e9..c5b5b86057 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -23,8 +23,6 @@ Features:
   may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
 
-* adjust OOM score slightly for journald
-
 * beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
   the hibernation
 
diff --git a/src/shutdown/shutdown.c b/src/shutdown/shutdown.c
index a574a07041..0eb17989d0 100644
--- a/src/shutdown/shutdown.c
+++ b/src/shutdown/shutdown.c
@@ -508,7 +508,6 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
                         log_error_errno(errno, "Failed to execute shutdown binary: %m");
                 } else
                         log_error_errno(r, "Failed to switch root to \"/run/initramfs\": %m");
-
         }
 
         if (need_umount || need_swapoff || need_loop_detach || need_dm_detach)
diff --git a/units/systemd-journald.service.in b/units/systemd-journald.service.in
index 323334f6a3..089bc38f59 100644
--- a/units/systemd-journald.service.in
+++ b/units/systemd-journald.service.in
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ After=systemd-journald.socket systemd-journald-dev-log.socket systemd-journald-a
 Before=sysinit.target
 
 [Service]
+OOMScoreAdjust=-250
 CapabilityBoundingSet=CAP_SYS_ADMIN CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE CAP_SYS_PTRACE CAP_SYSLOG CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL CAP_AUDIT_READ CAP_CHOWN CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH CAP_FOWNER CAP_SETUID CAP_SETGID CAP_MAC_OVERRIDE
 DeviceAllow=char-* rw
 ExecStart=@rootlibexecdir@/systemd-journald
diff --git a/units/systemd-udevd.service.in b/units/systemd-udevd.service.in
index e8a76cc018..dbb678ae69 100644
--- a/units/systemd-udevd.service.in
+++ b/units/systemd-udevd.service.in
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ ConditionPathIsReadWrite=/sys
 
 [Service]
 Type=notify
+# Note that udev also adjusts the OOM score internally and will reset the value internally for its workers
 OOMScoreAdjust=-1000
 Sockets=systemd-udevd-control.socket systemd-udevd-kernel.socket
 Restart=always