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authorEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2016-09-14T14·34+0200
committerEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2016-09-14T14·38+0200
commit6656ef7b5b798200cf8bf0c7534dbad1e964444d (patch)
tree619ed90d405e78f8d9aade15c988a6625f64e5d6 /doc
parent90ad02bf626b885a5dd8967894e2eafc953bdf92 (diff)
Revive binary-caches-parallel-connections
It's a slight misnomer now because it actually limits *all* downloads,
not just binary cache lookups.

Also add a "enable-http2" option to allow disabling use of HTTP/2
(enabled by default).
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml7
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml b/doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml
index fb7bdf5733..8b7640e582 100644
--- a/doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml
@@ -408,10 +408,9 @@ flag, e.g. <literal>--option gc-keep-outputs false</literal>.</para>
 
   <varlistentry><term><literal>binary-caches-parallel-connections</literal></term>
 
-    <listitem><para>The maximum number of parallel HTTP connections
-    used by the binary cache substituter to get NAR info files.  This
-    number should be high to minimise latency.  It defaults to
-    25.</para></listitem>
+    <listitem><para>The maximum number of parallel TCP connections
+    used to fetch files from binary caches and by other downloads. It
+    defaults to 25. 0 means no limit.</para></listitem>
 
   </varlistentry>