diff --git a/meta-phosphor/common/recipes-core/systemd/systemd/service-restart-policy.conf b/meta-phosphor/common/recipes-core/systemd/systemd/service-restart-policy.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0f95073
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-phosphor/common/recipes-core/systemd/systemd/service-restart-policy.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# This file overrides some defaults for systemd
+#
+# - Change the RestartSec from 100ms to 1s.
+# When a service hits a failure, our new debug collection service kicks
+# in.  When a core file is involved, it's been found that generating 5 core
+# files within ~500ms puts a huge strain on the BMC.  Also, if the bmc is
+# going to get a fix on a restart of a service, the more time the better
+# (think retries on device driver scenarios).
+#
+# - Change the StartLimitBurst to 3
+# Five just seems excessive for our services in openbmc.  In all fail
+# scenarios seen so far (other then with phosphor-hwmon), either
+# restarting once does the job or restarting all 5 times does not help
+# and we just end up hitting the 5 limit anyway.
+#
+# See systemd-system.conf(5) for details on the conf files
+
+[Manager]
+DefaultRestartSec=1s
+DefaultStartLimitBurst=3
diff --git a/meta-phosphor/common/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_%.bbappend b/meta-phosphor/common/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_%.bbappend
index 74a196d..1003e9e 100644
--- a/meta-phosphor/common/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_%.bbappend
+++ b/meta-phosphor/common/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_%.bbappend
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
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 FILESEXTRAPATHS_append := "${THISDIR}/${PN}:"
 SRC_URI += "file://default.network"
+SRC_URI += "file://service-restart-policy.conf"
 SRC_URI += "file://0001-Export-message_append_cmdline.patch"
 SRC_URI += "file://0002-systemd-Make-pam-compile-shared-library.patch"
 SRC_URI += "file://0003-basic-Factor-out-string-checking-from-name_to_prefix.patch"
@@ -18,11 +19,13 @@
 
 RRECOMMENDS_${PN} += "obmc-targets"
 FILES_${PN} += "${libdir}/systemd/network/default.network"
+FILES_${PN} += "${libdir}/systemd/system.conf.d/service-restart-policy.conf"
 
 EXTRA_OECONF += " --disable-hwdb"
 
 do_install_append() {
         install -m 644 ${WORKDIR}/default.network ${D}${libdir}/systemd/network/
+        install -m 644 -D ${WORKDIR}/service-restart-policy.conf ${D}${libdir}/systemd/system.conf.d/service-restart-policy.conf
 
         #TODO Remove after this issue is resolved
         #https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc/issues/152