From 8dad2fd69336985adb9f774fa96dc9c0efcb5a71 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lasse Collin Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:30:07 +0300 Subject: Updated INSTALL. --- INSTALL | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 805f1175..5cd69a89 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -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 -- cgit v1.2.3