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+Environment Variables
+======================
+
+Certain environment variables can affect or tune the behavior of the
+library. The variables and their behavior are described here.
+
+* ``BOTAN_THREAD_POOL_SIZE`` controls the number of threads which will be
+ created for a thread pool used for some purposes within the library. If not
+ set then it defaults to the number of CPUs available on the system.
+
+* ``BOTAN_MLOCK_POOL_SIZE`` controls the total amount of memory which will be
+ locked in memory using ``mlock`` or ``VirtualLock`` and managed in a memory
+ pool. If set to ``0`` (or indeed any value smaller than the system page size),
+ then the memory pool is disabled.
+
+* ``BOTAN_FFI_PRINT_EXCEPTIONS`` if this variable is set (to any value), then
+ if an exception is caught by the FFI layer, before returning an error code, it
+ will print the text message of the exception to stderr. This is primarily
+ intended for debugging.
+