`$LTTNG_HOME` is not set).
`LTTNG_UST_ALLOW_BLOCKING`::
- If set, allow application to retry event tracing when there's
+ If set, allow the application to retry event tracing when there's
no space left for the event record in the sub-buffer, therefore
effectively blocking the application until space is made available
- or timeout is reached. This only has effect on channels with
- `blocking-timeout` set.
+ or the configured timeout is reached.
++
+To allow an application to block during tracing, you also need to
+specify a blocking timeout when you create a channel with the
+nloption:--blocking-timeout option of the man:lttng-enable-channel(1)
+command.
+
This option can be useful in workloads generating very large trace data
throughput, where blocking the application is an acceptable trade-off to