Cygwin and lz/lza running out of memory?

[Matt D.]

The link sounded promising but no matter how high I set it (tried up to 
8192), I get the same error, even when bringing down the compression 
ratio a bit.

I attempted to increase the cygwin heap on both /usr/lib/p7zip/7z.exe 
and 7za.exe.


Matt D.

On 9/22/2013 10:25 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> 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>
>
> If not, please follow the problem-reporting guidelines found here:
>
>> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
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