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| author | Bernhard Schmidt <berni@debian.org> | 2020-09-30 21:10:56 +0200 |
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| committer | Bernhard Schmidt <berni@debian.org> | 2020-09-30 21:10:56 +0200 |
| commit | c3a748571ed19f9259b2e63cd7ba56abdb1b7747 (patch) | |
| tree | ef419b35f5a1632a8b0c3ab6faa773eed9c6788a /doc/man-sections/generic-options.rst | |
| parent | b97ad09a3b8c0017db0a677667a7215f1a98cccf (diff) | |
| parent | 5246174f27866c0e9e22844d998f3c97cac54050 (diff) | |
Update upstream source from tag 'upstream/2.5_rc2'
Update to upstream version '2.5~rc2'
with Debian dir 0cd2307abadc06f5064e4d5e7c23689a67b720c5
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man-sections/generic-options.rst b/doc/man-sections/generic-options.rst index a07fe7e..d5f0883 100644 --- a/doc/man-sections/generic-options.rst +++ b/doc/man-sections/generic-options.rst @@ -230,6 +230,13 @@ which mode OpenVPN is configured as. The downside of using ``--mlock`` is that it will reduce the amount of physical memory available to other applications. + The limit on how much memory can be locked and how that limit + is enforced are OS-dependent. On Linux the default limit that an + unprivileged process may lock (RLIMIT_MEMLOCK) is low, and if + privileges are dropped later, future memory allocations will very + likely fail. The limit can be increased using ulimit or systemd + directives depending on how OpenVPN is started. + --nice n Change process priority after initialization (``n`` greater than 0 is lower priority, ``n`` less than zero is higher priority). |