Merge pull request #725 from knocte/threadpool_init

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@@ -3,10 +3,11 @@
 .\" Copyright 2003 Ximian, Inc. 
 .\" Copyright 2004-2011 Novell, Inc. 
 .\" Copyright 2011-2012 Xamarin Inc
+.\" Copyright 2013 7digital Media Ltd.
 .\" Author:
 .\"   Miguel de Icaza (miguel@gnu.org)
 .\"
-.TH Mono "Mono 2.11"
+.TH Mono "Mono 3.0"
 .SH NAME
 mono \- Mono's ECMA-CLI native code generator (Just-in-Time and Ahead-of-Time)
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -417,7 +418,7 @@ 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
@@ -570,7 +571,8 @@ 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
@@ -897,6 +899,18 @@ above locations. If you don't want the mapping to be performed you can set this
 variable in your environment before starting the application and no action will
 be taken.
 .TP
+\fBMONO_ASPNET_WEBCONFIG_CACHESIZE\fR
+Mono has a cache of ConfigSection objects for speeding up WebConfigurationManager
+queries. Its default size is 100 items, and when more items are needed, cache
+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.
@@ -1614,6 +1628,10 @@ 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.
 .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