Qts - L --mLock option

Yazeed Fataar yazeedfataar at gmail.com
Sun Feb 14 11:34:57 CET 2016


Thanks Guus , its clear for me now.

Regards
Yazeed Fataar
<yazeedfataar at hotmail.com>

On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 1:25 PM, Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 01:12:11PM +0300, Yazeed Fataar wrote:
>
> > So as best practice running tinc I should include it ?
>
> I personally see little value in it. If you want to enable it, be sure
> to understand the implications of locking a process in RAM; you should
> have more RAM than the tincd process memory will ever use, and you
> should check that there are no resource limits that prevent tinc from
> allocating locked memory (check the mlock manpage, the limits.conf
> manpage and the bash manpage for the ulimit command).
>
> And of course, if you don't have any swap space enabled, you don't need
> the -L option.
>
> --
> Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
>      Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org>
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