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diff --git a/doc/environment_variables.md b/doc/environment_variables.md index 672be450b3..58a9270308 100644 --- a/doc/environment_variables.md +++ b/doc/environment_variables.md @@ -114,3 +114,11 @@ some configuration as environment variables that can be set. - native (default)- a DNS resolver based around getaddrinfo(), creates a new thread to perform name resolution - ares - a DNS resolver based around the c-ares library + +* GRPC_DISABLE_CHANNEL_CONNECTIVITY_WATCHER + The channel connectivity watcher uses one extra thread to check the channel + state every 500 ms on the client side. It can help reconnect disconnected + client channels (mostly due to idleness), so that the next RPC on this channel + won't fail. Set to 1 to turn off this watcher and save a thread. Please note + this is a temporary work-around, it will be removed in the future once we have + support for automatically reestablishing failed connections. |