From 42b072b863cfcfc495898c4c15d2aaa1bc1a463d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Adam Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:36:20 +0200 Subject: docs: document MaxRequestsPerChild in tinyproy.conf(5) --- docs/man5/tinyproxy.conf.txt.in | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) 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 ---- -- cgit v1.2.3