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| author | Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl> | 2010-11-16T12·49+0000 |
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| committer | Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl> | 2010-11-16T12·49+0000 |
| commit | fb9368b5a0b2457b28f19d4902bc0790123338a2 (patch) | |
| tree | 8e0d68ccc2951c44cfd442b3dad261e190127013 /doc/manual/env-common.xml | |
| parent | 64fd29855a8ae49cacdaff424679821b4fd3bf57 (diff) | |
| parent | 4aced7f8d0d5d2c1057b0f46a70a37a577f81fa5 (diff) | |
* Sync with the trunk.
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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> |