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@@ -225,6 +225,8 @@ See the docs at https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmauth.html .
     	Timezone to use for timestamps in logs. Timezone must be a valid IANA Time Zone. For example: America/New_York, Europe/Berlin, Etc/GMT+3 or Local (default "UTC")
   -loggerWarnsPerSecondLimit int
     	Per-second limit on the number of WARN messages. If more than the given number of warns are emitted per second, then the remaining warns are suppressed. Zero values disable the rate limit
+  -maxIdleConnsPerBackend int
+    	The maximum number of idle connections vmauth can open per each backend host (default 100)
   -memory.allowedBytes size
     	Allowed size of system memory VictoriaMetrics caches may occupy. This option overrides -memory.allowedPercent if set to a non-zero value. Too low a value may increase the cache miss rate usually resulting in higher CPU and disk IO usage. Too high a value may evict too much data from OS page cache resulting in higher disk IO usage
     	Supports the following optional suffixes for size values: KB, MB, GB, KiB, MiB, GiB (default 0)