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author | Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl> | 2008-11-19 11:58:33 +0000 |
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committer | Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl> | 2008-11-19 11:58:33 +0000 |
commit | 07d3a38726aeb9544212c14c8db5bdcdb7da785b (patch) | |
tree | da7b6d72bc47c67663424432c91308a2bf81a45f /doc/manual/conf-file.xml | |
parent | f5325d292d79f174f73b35ed886ae83bb80896cc (diff) |
* Remove references to Berkeley DB, including most of the
troubleshooting section. W00t.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/manual/conf-file.xml')
-rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/conf-file.xml | 21 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/conf-file.xml b/doc/manual/conf-file.xml index acf0eb4f5..66df3edd5 100644 --- a/doc/manual/conf-file.xml +++ b/doc/manual/conf-file.xml @@ -60,27 +60,6 @@ env-keep-derivations = false </varlistentry> - <varlistentry xml:id="conf-gc-reserved-space"><term><literal>gc-reserved-space</literal></term> - - <listitem><para>This option specifies how much space should be - reserved in normal use so that the garbage collector can run - succesfully. Since the garbage collector must perform Berkeley DB - transactions, it needs some disk space for itself. However, when - the disk is full, this space is not available, so the collector - would not be able to run precisely when it is most needed.</para> - - <para>For this reason, when Nix is run, it allocates a file - <filename>/nix/var/nix/db/reserved</filename> of the size - specified by this option. When the garbage collector is run, this - file is deleted before the Berkeley DB environment is opened. - This should give it enough room to proceed.</para> - - <para>The default is <literal>1048576</literal> (1 - MiB).</para></listitem> - - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry><term><literal>env-keep-derivations</literal></term> <listitem><para>If <literal>false</literal> (default), derivations |