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@@ -237,6 +237,22 @@ XZ Utils Installation to optimize for size. You need to add -Os or equivalent flag(s) to CFLAGS manually. + --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. + + 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 32 MiB, which is probably too low for most + systems, but it is enough to allow decompressing .xz files + created with the default settings. + + Feel free to send patches to add support for detecting + the amount of RAM on the operating system you use. See + src/common/tuklib_physmem.c for details. + --disable-threads Disable threading support. This makes some things thread-unsafe, meaning that if multithreaded application |