From: Tobias Brunner <tobias@strongswan.org>
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 07:06:01 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: strongswan.conf: Add note about reserved threads
X-Git-Tag: 5.1.1dr1~39
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e99cfe5f201ef9ba901ae404a50ebaaa0c242888;p=thirdparty%2Fstrongswan.git

strongswan.conf: Add note about reserved threads
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diff --git a/man/strongswan.conf.5.in b/man/strongswan.conf.5.in
index 847d9d5206..ecc2f71c0d 100644
--- a/man/strongswan.conf.5.in
+++ b/man/strongswan.conf.5.in
@@ -319,7 +319,11 @@ Send strongSwan vendor ID payload
 Section to define syslog loggers, see LOGGER CONFIGURATION
 .TP
 .BR charon.threads " [16]"
-Number of worker threads in charon
+Number of worker threads in charon. Several of these are reserved for long
+running tasks in internal modules and plugins. Therefore, make sure you don't
+set this value too low. The number of idle worker threads listed in
+.I ipsec statusall
+might be used as indicator on the number of reserved threads.
 .TP
 .BR charon.user
 Name of the user the daemon changes to after startup