Commit 90bcfa22 authored by Nick Mathewson's avatar Nick Mathewson 🥔
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changes file and docs for 18640.

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  o Major features (resource management):

    - Tor now includes support for noticing when we are about to run out of

      sockets, and preemptively closing connections of lower priority.

      (This feature is off by default for now, since the current prioritizing

      method is not mature enough yet. You can enable it by setting

      "DisableOOSCheck 0".) Closes ticket 18640.

doc/tor.1.txt

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    this.  If this option is set to 0, Tor will try to pick a reasonable

    default based on your system's physical memory.  (Default: 0)



[[DisableOOSCheck]] **DisableOOSCheck** **0**|**1**::

    This option disables the code that closes connections when Tor notices

    that it is running low on sockets. Right now, it is on by default,

    since the existing out-of-sockets mechanism tends to kill OR connections

    more than it should. (Default: 1)



[[SigningKeyLifetime]] **SigningKeyLifetime** __N__ **days**|**weeks**|**months**::

    For how long should each Ed25519 signing key be valid?  Tor uses a

    permanent master identity key that can be kept offline, and periodically