- enable-dbus= Takes a boolean value ("yes" or
- "no"). If set to "yes" avahi-daemon connects to DBUS, to offer
- an object oriented client API. Only available if avahi has
- been compiled with --enable-dbus in which case it
- defaults to "yes".
+ enable-dbus= Takes either "yes", "no" or
+ "warn". If set to "yes" avahi-daemon connects to D-BUS,
+ offering an object oriented client API. It is only available
+ if avahi has been compiled with --enable-dbus in
+ which case it defaults to "yes". "warn" behaves like "yes",
+ but the daemon starts up even when it fails to connect to a
+ D-BUS daemon.
@@ -173,6 +175,44 @@
+
+ This section is used to define system resource limits for the
+ daemon. See for more
+ information. If any of the options is not specified in the configuration
+ file, avahi-daemon does not change it from the system
+ defaults.
+
+
+
+ rlimit-as= Value in bytes for RLIMIT_AS (maximum size of the process's virtual memory). Sensible values are heavily system dependent.
+
+
+
+ rlimit-core= Value in bytes for RLIMIT_CORE (maximum core file size). Unless you want to debug avahi-daemon, it is safe to set this to 0.
+
+
+
+ rlimit-data= Value in bytes for RLIMIT_DATA (maximum size of the process's data segment). Sensible values are heavily system dependent.
+
+
+
+ rlimit-fsize= Value for RLIMIT_FSIZE (maximum size of files the process may create). Since avahi-daemon shouldn't write any files to disk, it is safe to set this to 0.
+
+
+
+ rlimit-nofile= Value for RLIMIT_NOFILE (open file descriptors). avahi-daemon shouldn't need more than 15 to 20 open file descriptors concurrently.
+
+
+
+ rlimit-stack= Value in bytes for RLIMIT_STACK (maximum size of the process stack). Sensible values are heavily system dependent.
+
+
+
+ rlimit-nproc= Value for RLIMIT_NPROC (number of process of user). Since only a single avahi-daemon process is usually running you can set this safely to 1.
+
+
+
+