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| -rw-r--r-- | src/xz/xz.1 | 31 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/src/xz/xz.1 b/src/xz/xz.1 index 7187b41e..f8a773bb 100644 --- a/src/xz/xz.1 +++ b/src/xz/xz.1 @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ .\" This file has been put into the public domain. .\" You can do whatever you want with this file. .\" -.TH XZ 1 "2022-08-19" "Tukaani" "XZ Utils" +.TH XZ 1 "2022-08-22" "Tukaani" "XZ Utils" . .SH NAME xz, unxz, xzcat, lzma, unlzma, lzcat \- Compress or decompress .xz and .lzma files @@ -1067,22 +1067,26 @@ for possible ways to specify the .IR limit . .TP .BI \-\-memlimit\-mt\-decompress= limit -Set a memory usage limit for decompression that can only affect -the number of threads. -Unlike -.BR \-\-memlimit\-decompress , -this -.I limit -will never make +Set a memory usage limit for multi-threaded decompression. +This can only affect the number of threads; +this will never make .B xz refuse to decompress a file. -If even single-threaded mode will exceed the +If .I limit -then the +is too low to allow any multi-threading, the .I limit is ignored and .B xz -will decompress in single-threaded mode anyway. +will continue in single-threaded mode. +Note that if also +.B \-\-memlimit\-decompress +is used, +it will always apply to both single-threaded and multi-threaded modes, +and so the effective +.I limit +for multi-threading will never be higher than the limit set with +.BR \-\-memlimit\-decompress . .IP "" In contrast to the other memory usage limit options, .BI \-\-memlimit\-mt\-decompress= limit @@ -1115,7 +1119,10 @@ Setting .I limit to .B 0 -resets it to the default system-specific value. +resets the +.I limit +to the default system-specific value. +.IP "" .TP \fB\-M\fR \fIlimit\fR, \fB\-\-memlimit=\fIlimit\fR, \fB\-\-memory=\fIlimit This is equivalent to specifying |