Merge pull request #3450 from vespa-engine/hmusum/clarify-garbage-col…

…lection-interval Add some more info about garbage-collection-interval
vespa-engine · Oct 29, 2024 · bfbb71a · bfbb71a
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diff --git a/en/reference/services-content.html b/en/reference/services-content.html
@@ -221,7 +221,9 @@ <h2 id="documents">documents</h2>
   <td>integer</td>
   <td>3600</td>
   <td>
-    <p id="documents.garbage-collection-interval">Time (in seconds) between garbage collection cycles.</p>
+    <p id="documents.garbage-collection-interval">Time (in seconds) between garbage collection cycles.
+      Note that the deletion of documents is spread over this interval, so more resources will be
+      used for deleting a set of documents with a small interval than with a larger interval.</p>
   </td></tr>
 </tbody>
 </table>