Re: [Openvpn-devel] Using --mlock and --user makes openvpn "run out of memory"

2012-10-11 Thread Eric Crist
If this is of importance to you, there are two courses of action. First, please create a ticket on the OpenVPN community trac. Please be as detailed as possible. Another option is to fix this in the source tree, based of git-master, and submit a working patch. This second option is going to

[Openvpn-devel] Using --mlock and --user makes openvpn "run out of memory"

2012-10-11 Thread Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta
Hi, There's an open bug in Debian [1] since 2007, that seems to be quite documented right now. To sum up, when you run openvpn with --mlock and --user, the daemon will die with "out of memory", possibly due to mlock(2): BUGS Since kernel 2.6.9, if a privileged process calls