Improve docstring for chunk type flag.

pull/579/head
beorn7 10 years ago
parent 23ba8a5516
commit 66e768f05e

@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ var (
samplesQueueCapacity = flag.Int("storage.incoming-samples-queue-capacity", 64*1024, "The capacity of the queue of samples to be stored. Note that each slot in the queue takes a whole slice of samples whose size depends on details of the scrape process.")
chunkType = flag.Int("storage.local.chunk-type", 1, "Which chunk encoding version to use. Currently supported is 0 and 1.")
chunkType = flag.Int("storage.local.chunk-type", 1, "Which chunk encoding version to use. Currently supported is 0 (delta encoding) and 1 (double-delta encoding).")
numMemoryChunks = flag.Int("storage.local.memory-chunks", 1024*1024, "How many chunks to keep in memory. While the size of a chunk is 1kiB, the total memory usage will be significantly higher than this value * 1kiB. Furthermore, for various reasons, more chunks might have to be kept in memory temporarily.")
persistenceRetentionPeriod = flag.Duration("storage.local.retention", 15*24*time.Hour, "How long to retain samples in the local storage.")

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