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| author | Shay <hillerys@element.io> | 2022-05-19 07:46:33 -0700 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2022-05-19 07:46:33 -0700 |
| commit | ab2a615cfb13f8ff91919c4332fcb182640d5484 (patch) | |
| tree | 59ce040e59425df9209326cfcadeb4f65a8a2f48 /docs/usage | |
| parent | Properly close providers.json file stream. (#12794) (diff) | |
| download | synapse-ab2a615cfb13f8ff91919c4332fcb182640d5484.tar.xz | |
Update configuration manual to document size-related suffixes (#12777)
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diff --git a/docs/usage/configuration/config_documentation.md b/docs/usage/configuration/config_documentation.md index 6b9ffc09d2..525e1c7a91 100644 --- a/docs/usage/configuration/config_documentation.md +++ b/docs/usage/configuration/config_documentation.md @@ -23,6 +23,14 @@ followed by a letter. Letters have the following meanings: For example, setting `redaction_retention_period: 5m` would remove redacted messages from the database after 5 minutes, rather than 5 months. +In addition, configuration options referring to size use the following suffixes: + +* `M` = MiB, or 1,048,576 bytes +* `K` = KiB, or 1024 bytes + +For example, setting `max_avatar_size: 10M` means that Synapse will not accept files larger than 10,485,760 bytes +for a user avatar. + ### YAML The configuration file is a [YAML](https://yaml.org/) file, which means that certain syntax rules apply if you want your config file to be read properly. A few helpful things to know: |