X-Git-Url: https://git.distorted.org.uk/u/mdw/catacomb/blobdiff_plain/8a26239fd26c599135d863912efa8d43b4764f44..5d01b1b9514a258c5a3c201e944f676cb2c467f0:/pixie.1 diff --git a/pixie.1 b/pixie.1 index c83b013..ced4b48 100644 --- a/pixie.1 +++ b/pixie.1 @@ -125,10 +125,13 @@ Send log messages to the syslog rather than stderr. .\" .SS "Memory management" During initialization, the pixie attempts to allocate a block of memory -from the kernel and protect it against being swapped to disk. On most -systems, this requires that the pixie start with root privileges, -although it will drop them as soon as it can (before parsing -command-line options). +from the kernel and protect it against being swapped to disk. On Linux +and other systems with +.B RLIMIT_MEMLOCK +or similar, this should just work assuming that the limit is set +sensibly. On other systems, this requires that the pixie start with +root privileges, although it will drop them as soon as it can (before +parsing command-line options, for example). .PP The locked memory is used for all of the passphrases which the pixie stores, and for the buffers used to hold requests from clients.