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Re: xz -9 : Cannot allocate memory
- From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko at NexGo dot DE>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 14:34:07 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: Re: xz -9 : Cannot allocate memory
- Authentication-results: sourceware.org; auth=none
- References: <50A41697 dot 3080406 at tiscali dot co dot uk> <loom dot 20130829T155739-66 at post dot gmane dot org>
Achim Gratz <Stromeko <at> NexGo.DE> writes:
> With the initial heap size set to 1MB, the same allocations for mmap work
> just fine. The mmap length used by xz is the same for files of all sizes.
The large mmap is for the scratchpad memory of xz, which can be limited via
the -M option. Currently it fails when this gets larger than 616MiB
(standard for -9 is 674Mib).
Regards,
Achim.
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