From 64e4079f32e70a25e603470483c0e95549b3ab1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gert Doering Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 13:49:47 +0100 Subject: Document "lz4" argument to "compress" config option. Signed-off-by: Gert Doering Acked-by: Arne Schwabe Message-Id: <1389012640-24174-1-git-send-email-gert@greenie.muc.de> URL: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.openvpn.devel/8178 --- doc/openvpn.8 | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/openvpn.8 b/doc/openvpn.8 index f06d536..3df7a6f 100644 --- a/doc/openvpn.8 +++ b/doc/openvpn.8 @@ -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 -- cgit