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authorBernhard Schmidt <berni@debian.org>2020-09-30 21:10:56 +0200
committerBernhard Schmidt <berni@debian.org>2020-09-30 21:10:56 +0200
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Update upstream source from tag 'upstream/2.5_rc2'
Update to upstream version '2.5~rc2' with Debian dir 0cd2307abadc06f5064e4d5e7c23689a67b720c5
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@@ -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).