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diff --git a/boehm-gc/doc/README.environment b/boehm-gc/doc/README.environment index 6b25af1..c7daddb 100644 --- a/boehm-gc/doc/README.environment +++ b/boehm-gc/doc/README.environment @@ -30,7 +30,16 @@ GC_NPROCS=<n> - Linux w/threads only. Explicitly sets the number of processors correctness, but may lead to really horrible performance. GC_NO_BLACKLIST_WARNING - Prevents the collector from issuing - "Needed to allocate blacklisted block at ..." warnings. + warnings about allocations of very large blocks. + Deprecated. Use GC_LARGE_ALLOC_WARN_INTERVAL instead. + +GC_LARGE_ALLOC_WARN_INTERVAL=<n> - Print every nth warning about very large + block allocations, starting with the nth one. Small values + of n are generally benign, in that a bounded number of + such warnings generally indicate at most a bounded leak. + For best results it should be set at 1 during testing. + Default is 5. Very large numbers effectively disable the + warning. GC_IGNORE_GCJ_INFO - Ignore the type descriptors implicitly supplied by GC_gcj_malloc and friends. This is useful for debugging |