src/plugin.[ch]: Use a pool of write threads to dispatch values to write plugins.

[collectd.git] / src / collectd.conf.pod

diff --git a/src/collectd.conf.pod b/src/collectd.conf.pod
index 01346e1..74a8cfc 100644 (file)
--- a/src/collectd.conf.pod
+++ b/src/collectd.conf.pod
@@ -181,8 +181,14 @@ see L<collectd-threshold(5)> for details.
 
 Number of threads to start for reading plugins. The default value is B<5>, but
 you may want to increase this if you have more than five plugins that take a
-long time to read. Mostly those are plugin that do network-IO. Setting this to
-a value higher than the number of plugins you've loaded is totally useless.
+long time to read. Mostly those are plugins that do network-IO. Setting this to
+a value higher than the number of registered read callbacks is not recommended.
+
+=item B<WriteThreads> I<Num>
+
+Number of threads to start for dispatching value lists to write plugins. The
+default value is B<5>, but you may want to increase this if you have more than
+five plugins that may take relatively long to write to.
 
 =item B<Hostname> I<Name>