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| author | zimbatm <zimbatm@zimbatm.com> | 2018-03-17T21·25+0000 |
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| committer | zimbatm <zimbatm@zimbatm.com> | 2018-03-17T21·29+0000 |
| commit | 43bef1b82c4a06a916b99643adaf398b04e18870 (patch) | |
| tree | 0a0613629090011d57c7470e8657c65a264ab258 /doc/manual | |
| parent | fef8ebf51d8f190932a134186f775d57d1ccf054 (diff) | |
doc: document the min-free and max-free options
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/manual')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml | 17 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml b/doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml index ab83f671a746..4a94b9355582 100644 --- a/doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml +++ b/doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml @@ -406,6 +406,12 @@ builtins.fetchurl { </varlistentry> + <varlistentry xml:id="conf-max-free"><term><literal>max-free</literal></term> + + <listitem><para>This option defines after how many free bytes to stop collecting + garbage once the <literal>min-free</literal> condition gets triggered.</para></listitem> + + </varlistentry> <varlistentry xml:id="conf-max-jobs"><term><literal>max-jobs</literal></term> @@ -440,6 +446,17 @@ builtins.fetchurl { </varlistentry> + <varlistentry xml:id="conf-min-free"><term><literal>min-free</literal></term> + + <listitem> + <para>When the disk reaches <literal>min-free</literal> bytes of free disk space during a build, nix + will start to garbage-collection until <literal>max-free</literal> bytes are available on the disk. + A value of <literal>0</literal> (the default) means that this feature is disabled.</para> + </para> + </listitem> + + </varlistentry> + <varlistentry xml:id="conf-netrc-file"><term><literal>netrc-file</literal></term> |