diff --git a/packaging/systemd/microshift.service b/packaging/systemd/microshift.service
index 5f783bd0a58..53ea8652ef1 100644
--- a/packaging/systemd/microshift.service
+++ b/packaging/systemd/microshift.service
@@ -9,6 +9,15 @@ ExecStart=microshift run
 Restart=always
 User=root
 Type=notify
+Delegate=yes
+CPUAccounting=yes
+BlockIOAccounting=yes
+MemoryAccounting=yes
+# Having non-zero Limit*s causes performance problems due to accounting overhead
+# in the kernel. We recommend using cgroups to do container-local accounting.
+LimitNOFILE=1048576
+LimitNPROC=infinity
+LimitCORE=infinity
 
 [Install]
 WantedBy=multi-user.target