systemctl show outputs incorrect MemoryCurrent value

[h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Reindl Harald)]

Am 25.07.2018 um 17:01 schrieb Lennart Poettering:
> On Mi, 25.07.18 11:23, George Xie (georgexsh at gmail.com) wrote:
> 
>> thanks for your reply.
>>
>> odds enough, on both aforementioned boxes, MemoryAccounting is set
>> to no:
> 
> On old systemd versions we'd fill in the account props if the kernel
> had the data even if MemoryAccounting was not turned on. This has been
> changed in more recent versions, where all accounting props will
> report 2^64-1 unless accounting has been turned on for them.

why?

i mean why not just skip that output at all or at least ouput 0 instean
an arbitary number?