summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffhomepage
path: root/docs
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorMichael Adam <obnox@samba.org>2009-09-28 09:36:20 +0200
committerMichael Adam <obnox@samba.org>2009-09-28 11:24:34 +0200
commit42b072b863cfcfc495898c4c15d2aaa1bc1a463d (patch)
tree923819b434ba87de43a9e9672e1f83a34173b324 /docs
parent553b95b3ed3869e2b3b5d36bb156be9086c982be (diff)
docs: document MaxRequestsPerChild in tinyproy.conf(5)
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
-rw-r--r--docs/man5/tinyproxy.conf.txt.in9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/man5/tinyproxy.conf.txt.in b/docs/man5/tinyproxy.conf.txt.in
index a681245..faa9d83 100644
--- a/docs/man5/tinyproxy.conf.txt.in
+++ b/docs/man5/tinyproxy.conf.txt.in
@@ -188,6 +188,15 @@ The possible keywords and their descriptions are as follows:
The number of servers to start initially. This should usually be
set to a value between MinSpareServers and MaxSpareServers.
+*MaxRequestsPerChild*::
+
+ This limits the number of connections that a child process
+ will handle before it is killed. The default value is `0`
+ which disables this feature. This option is meant as an
+ emergency measure in the case of problems with memory leakage.
+ In that case, setting `MaxRequestsPerChild` to a value of e.g.
+ 1000, or 10000 can be useful.
+
BUGS
----