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| author | Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl> | 2010-10-29T14·44+0000 |
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| committer | Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl> | 2010-10-29T14·44+0000 |
| commit | 26def5392f6f6364aa0939a2d4fc7705e786d38d (patch) | |
| tree | 1908294aa8f029be6bc4c0f227074391dbaeee9b /doc/manual/env-common.xml | |
| parent | 3d71c8013efa5d347b9767af54160b3d0fd9127b (diff) | |
* Document Boehm GC support.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/env-common.xml | 11 |
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diff --git a/doc/manual/env-common.xml b/doc/manual/env-common.xml index d67ef714d0f9..99acc5949044 100644 --- a/doc/manual/env-common.xml +++ b/doc/manual/env-common.xml @@ -271,6 +271,17 @@ $ mount -o bind /mnt/otherdisk/nix /nix</screen> </varlistentry> + +<varlistentry><term><envar>GC_INITIAL_HEAP_SIZE</envar></term> + + <listitem><para>If Nix has been configured to use the Boehm garbage + collector, this variable sets the initial size of the heap in bytes. + It defaults to 384 MiB. Setting it to a low value reduces memory + consumption, but will increase runtime due to the overhead of + garbage collection.</para></listitem> + +</varlistentry> + </variablelist> |