Merge pull request #963 from kebby/master

[mono.git] / man / mono.1

diff --git a/man/mono.1 b/man/mono.1
index 6d9a37f719b758a003b629d48422c3bd823ccc0d..74cbb7dbb8bb44357c7a513e0c1737f749798736 100644 (file)
--- a/man/mono.1
+++ b/man/mono.1
@@ -265,6 +265,12 @@ instructs the Mono runtime to start debugging in server mode, where Mono
 actively waits for the debugger front end to connect to the Mono process.  
 Mono will print out to stdout the IP address and port where it is listening.
 .TP
+.I setpgid=[y/n]
+If set to yes, Mono will call \fBsetpgid(0, 0)\fB on startup, if that function
+is available on the system. This is useful for ensuring that signals delivered
+to a process that is executing the debuggee are not propagated to the debuggee,
+e.g. when Ctrl-C sends \fBSIGINT\fB to the \fBsdb\fB tool.
+.TP
 .I suspend=[y/n]
 Defaults to yes, with the default option Mono will suspend the vm on startup 
 until it connects successfully to a debugger front end.  If you set it to 'n', in 
@@ -418,7 +424,7 @@ the global assembly cache is always trusted.
 .TP
 \fB--server\fR
 Configures the virtual machine to be better suited for server
-operations (currently, a no-op).
+operations (currently, allows a heavier threadpool initialization).
 .TP
 \fB--verify-all\fR 
 Verifies mscorlib and assemblies in the global
@@ -571,7 +577,8 @@ itself, and not typically of interest to runtime users or developers.
 \fB--break method\fR
 Inserts a breakpoint before the method whose name is `method'
 (namespace.class:methodname).  Use `Main' as method name to insert a
-breakpoint on the application's main method.
+breakpoint on the application's main method.  You can use it also with
+generics, for example "System.Collections.Generic.Queue`1:Peek"
 .TP
 \fB--breakonex\fR
 Inserts a breakpoint on exceptions.  This allows you to debug your
@@ -905,6 +912,11 @@ evictions start happening. If evictions are too frequent this could impose
 unnecessary overhead, which could be avoided by using this environment variable
 to set up a higher cache size (or to lower memory requirements by decreasing it).
 .TP
+\fBMONO_CAIRO_DEBUG_DISPOSE\fR
+If set, causes Mono.Cairo to collect stack traces when objects are allocated,
+so that the finalization/Dispose warnings include information about the
+instance's origin.
+.TP
 \fBMONO_CFG_DIR\fR
 If set, this variable overrides the default system configuration directory
 ($PREFIX/etc). It's used to locate machine.config file.
@@ -1405,9 +1417,9 @@ small embedded systems.
 The default is 180 seconds.
 .TP
 \fBMONO_THREADS_PER_CPU\fR
-The maximum number of threads in the general threadpool will be
-20 + (MONO_THREADS_PER_CPU * number of CPUs). The default value for this
-variable is 10.
+The minimum number of threads in the general threadpool will be 
+MONO_THREADS_PER_CPU * number of CPUs. The default value for this
+variable is 1.
 .TP
 \fBMONO_XMLSERIALIZER_THS\fR
 Controls the threshold for the XmlSerializer to produce a custom
@@ -1622,6 +1634,16 @@ for example, to see managed frame names on gdb backtraces.
 Enables the maximum JIT verbosity for the specified method. This is
 very helpfull to diagnose a miscompilation problems of a specific
 method.
+.TP
+\fBMONO_VERBOSE_HWCAP\fR
+If set, makes the JIT output information about detected CPU features
+(such as SSE, CMOV, FCMOV, etc) to stdout.
+.TP
+\fBMONO_CONSERVATIVE_HWCAP\fR
+If set, the JIT will not perform any hardware capability detection. This
+may be useful to pinpoint the cause of JIT issues. This is the default
+when Mono is built as an AOT cross compiler, so that the generated code
+will run on most hardware.
 .SH VALGRIND
 If you want to use Valgrind, you will find the file `mono.supp'
 useful, it contains the suppressions for the GC which trigger