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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 |