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Diffstat (limited to 'openssl/doc/ssl/SSL_CTX_set_mode.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | openssl/doc/ssl/SSL_CTX_set_mode.pod | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/openssl/doc/ssl/SSL_CTX_set_mode.pod b/openssl/doc/ssl/SSL_CTX_set_mode.pod index 9822544e5..8cb669dae 100644 --- a/openssl/doc/ssl/SSL_CTX_set_mode.pod +++ b/openssl/doc/ssl/SSL_CTX_set_mode.pod @@ -61,6 +61,16 @@ deal with read/write operations returning without success report. The flag SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY will cause read/write operations to only return after the handshake and successful completion. +=item SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS + +When we no longer need a read buffer or a write buffer for a given SSL, +then release the memory we were using to hold it. Released memory is +either appended to a list of unused RAM chunks on the SSL_CTX, or simply +freed if the list of unused chunks would become longer than +SSL_CTX->freelist_max_len, which defaults to 32. Using this flag can +save around 34k per idle SSL connection. +This flag has no effect on SSL v2 connections, or on DTLS connections. + =back =head1 RETURN VALUES |