Cygwin and lz/lza running out of memory?

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 9/22/2013 5:30 PM, Matt D. wrote:
> Depending on the options I choose, I keep running into lz/lzma reporting:
> "ERROR: Can't allocate required memory!".
>
> This can occur before or during compression. The lz/lza process tends to
> stop after gaining about 400MB on the process; then it exits with this
> error. The problem does not appear to be how much available memory I have
> but rather q question of why the process can't seem to allocate it.
>
> Any advice?

Take a look at this thread and see if this leads you to an answer.

<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-11/msg00104.html>

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