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authorGert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de>2014-01-06 13:49:47 +0100
committerGert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de>2014-01-06 14:14:56 +0100
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Document "lz4" argument to "compress" config option.
Signed-off-by: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de> Acked-by: Arne Schwabe <arne@rfc2549.org> Message-Id: <1389012640-24174-1-git-send-email-gert@greenie.muc.de> URL: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.openvpn.devel/8178
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@@ -2417,9 +2417,11 @@ Enable a compression algorithm.
The
.B algorithm
-parameter may be "snappy", "lzo", or empty. Snappy and LZO
+parameter may be "snappy", "lzo", "lz4", or empty. Snappy, LZO and LZ4
are different compression algorithms, with Snappy generally
-offering the best performance.
+offering the best performance while LZ4 is faster with less CPU usage.
+For backwards compatibility with OpenVPN versions before 2.4, use "lzo"
+(which is identical to the older option "\-\-comp-lzo yes").
If the
.B algorithm