diff --git a/website/source/docs/configuration/index.html.md b/website/source/docs/configuration/index.html.md index a18474b73e..75a2b02ffc 100644 --- a/website/source/docs/configuration/index.html.md +++ b/website/source/docs/configuration/index.html.md @@ -74,8 +74,8 @@ to specify where the configuration is. Disabling `mlock` is not recommended unless the systems running Vault only use encrypted swap or do not use swap at all. Vault only supports memory - locking on UNIX-like systems (Linux, FreeBSD, Darwin, etc). Non-UNIX like - systems (e.g. Windows, NaCL, Android) lack the primitives to keep a + locking on UNIX-like systems that support the mlock() syscall (Linux, FreeBSD, etc). + Non UNIX-like systems (e.g. Windows, NaCL, Android) lack the primitives to keep a process's entire memory address space from spilling to disk and is therefore automatically disabled on unsupported platforms.