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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). |