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Re: Consensus: Tuning runtime behaviour with environment variables.


On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 06:17:16PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On 05/29/2013 05:59 PM, OndÅej BÃlka wrote:
> > Needs comment that changing runtime behaviour by setting its setenv is
> > not supported(Unless we add small performance penalty for each setenv).
> 
> No, using setenv will never change the behaviour once the process
> is started. At that point your only option would be a new API that
> exposes tunables in a thread-safe way with explicitly defined
> semantics.
>
Well I meant exactly that and that you need add this to user
documentation. 
 
Ondra.


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