Add automatic garbage collection

Nix can now automatically run the garbage collector during builds or
while adding paths to the store. The option "min-free = <bytes>"
specifies that Nix should run the garbage collector whenever free
space in the Nix store drops below <bytes>. It will then delete
garbage until "max-free" bytes are available.

Garbage collection during builds is asynchronous; running builds are
not paused and new builds are not blocked. However, there also is a
synchronous GC run prior to the first build/substitution.

Currently, no old GC roots are deleted (as in "nix-collect-garbage
-d").

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/libstore/globals.hh b/src/libstore/globals.hh
index c20d147f5..41d332311 100644
--- a/src/libstore/globals.hh
+++ b/src/libstore/globals.hh
@@ -4,8 +4,9 @@
 #include "config.hh"
 
 #include <map>
-#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <limits>
 
+#include <sys/types.h>
 
 namespace nix {
 
@@ -342,6 +343,13 @@ public:
 
     Setting<Strings> hashedMirrors{this, {"http://tarballs.nixos.org/"}, "hashed-mirrors",
         "A list of servers used by builtins.fetchurl to fetch files by hash."};
+
+    Setting<uint64_t> minFree{this, 0, "min-free",
+        "Automatically run the garbage collector when free disk space drops below the specified amount."};
+
+    Setting<uint64_t> maxFree{this, std::numeric_limits<uint64_t>::max(), "max-free",
+        "Stop deleting garbage when free disk space is above the specified amount."};
+
 };