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| author | Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org> | 2010-09-10 14:30:07 +0300 |
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| committer | Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org> | 2010-09-10 14:30:07 +0300 |
| commit | 8dad2fd69336985adb9f774fa96dc9c0efcb5a71 (patch) | |
| tree | d60407d1ea8967fa1ccc07f942426c4754883130 /INSTALL | |
| parent | Updated the git repository address in ChangeLog. (diff) | |
| download | xz-8dad2fd69336985adb9f774fa96dc9c0efcb5a71.tar.xz | |
Updated INSTALL.
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@@ -235,13 +235,14 @@ XZ Utils Installation --enable-assume-ram=SIZE On the most common operating systems, XZ Utils is able to detect the amount of physical memory on the system. This - information is used to set the default memory usage limit. + information is used by the options --memlimit-compress, + --memlimit-decompress, and --memlimit when setting the + limit to a percentage of total RAM. On some systems, there is no code to detect the amount of RAM though. Using --enable-assume-ram one can set how much memory to assume on these systems. SIZE is given as MiB. - The default is 128 MiB, which allows decompressing files - created with "xz -9". + The default is 128 MiB. Feel free to send patches to add support for detecting the amount of RAM on the operating system you use. See |