diff mercurial/help/config.txt @ 18636:dcb27c153a40

worker: estimate whether it's worth running a task in parallel Not implemented for Windows yet.
author Bryan O'Sullivan <bryano@fb.com>
date Sat, 09 Feb 2013 15:51:26 -0800
parents e71c2ff93167
children a40d608e2a7b
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--- a/mercurial/help/config.txt	Sat Feb 09 15:22:12 2013 -0800
+++ b/mercurial/help/config.txt	Sat Feb 09 15:51:26 2013 -0800
@@ -1463,3 +1463,15 @@
 
 ``templates``
     Where to find the HTML templates. Default is install path.
+
+``worker``
+----------
+
+Parallel master/worker configuration. We currently perform working
+directory updates in parallel on Unix-like systems, which greatly
+helps performance.
+
+``numcpus``
+    Number of CPUs to use for parallel operations. Default is 4 or the
+    number of CPUs on the system, whichever is larger. A zero or
+    negative value is treated as ``use the default``.