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Lasse Collin
96864a6ddf xz: Use lzma_cputhreads() instead of own copy of tuklib_cpucores(). 2014-06-18 22:07:06 +03:00
Lasse Collin
335fe260a8 xz: Minor internal changes to handling of --threads.
Now it always defaults to one thread. Maybe this
will change again if a threading method is added
that doesn't affect memory usage.
2011-04-09 15:11:13 +03:00
Lasse Collin
41bc9956eb xz: Add a note to translators. 2010-09-07 12:31:40 +03:00
Lasse Collin
792331bdee Disable the memory usage limiter by default.
For several people, the limiter causes bigger problems that
it solves, so it is better to have it disabled by default.
Those who want to have a limiter by default need to enable
it via the environment variable XZ_DEFAULTS.

Support for environment variable XZ_DEFAULTS was added. It is
parsed before XZ_OPT and technically identical with it. The
intended uses differ quite a bit though; see the man page.

The memory usage limit can now be set separately for
compression and decompression using --memlimit-compress and
--memlimit-decompress. To set both at once, -M or --memlimit
can be used. --memory was retained as a legacy alias for
--memlimit for backwards compatibility.

The semantics of --info-memory were changed in backwards
incompatible way. Compatibility wasn't meaningful due to
changes in the memory usage limiter functionality.

The memory usage limiter info is no longer shown at the
bottom of xz --long -help.

The memory usage limiter support for removed completely from xzdec.

xz's man page was updated to match the above changes. Various
unrelated fixes were also made to the man page.
2010-08-07 20:45:18 +03:00
Lasse Collin
2672bcc9f8 Increase the default memory usage limit on "low-memory" systems.
Previously the default limit was always 40 % of RAM. The
new limit is a little bit more complex:

  - If 40 % of RAM is at least 80 MiB, 40 % of RAM is used
    as the limit.

  - If 80 % of RAM is over 80 MiB, 80 MiB is used as the limit.

  - Otherwise 80 % of RAM is used as the limit.

This should make it possible to decompress files created with
"xz -9" on more systems. Swapping is generally more expected
on systems with less RAM, so higher default limit on them
shouldn't cause too bad surprises in terms of heavy swapping.
Instead, the higher default limit should reduce the number of
bad surprises when it used to prevent decompression of files
created with "xz -9". The DoS prevention system shouldn't be
a DoS itself.

Note that even with the new default limit, a system with 64 MiB
RAM cannot decompress files created with "xz -9" without user
overriding the limit. This should be OK, because if xz is going
to need more memory than the system has RAM, it will run very
very slowly and thus it's good that user has to override the limit
in that case.
2010-03-07 13:29:28 +02:00
Lasse Collin
93e418562c Add lzma_physmem().
I had hoped to keep liblzma as purely a compression
library as possible (e.g. file I/O will go into
a different library), but it seems that applications
linking agaisnt liblzma need some way to determine
the memory usage limit, and knowing the amount of RAM
is one reasonable way to help making such decisions.

Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for the original patch.
2009-11-15 12:40:17 +02:00
Lasse Collin
29fd321033 Add support for --enable-assume-ram=SIZE. 2009-10-02 14:35:56 +03:00
Lasse Collin
e599bba421 Various changes.
Separate a few reusable components from XZ Utils specific
code. The reusable code is now in "tuklib" modules. A few
more could be separated still, e.g. bswap.h.

Fix some bugs in lzmainfo.

Fix physmem and cpucores code on OS/2. Thanks to Elbert Pol
for help.

Add OpenVMS support into physmem. Add a few #ifdefs to ease
building XZ Utils on OpenVMS. Thanks to Jouk Jansen for the
original patch.
2009-09-19 09:47:30 +03:00
Lasse Collin
b0063023f8 Make the default memory usage limit 40 % of RAM for both
compressing and decompressing. This should be OK now that
xz automatically scales down the compression settings if
they would exceed the memory usage limit (earlier, the limit
for compression was increased to 90 % because low limit broke
scripts that used "xz -9" on systems with low RAM).

Support spcifying the memory usage limit as a percentage
of RAM (e.g. --memory=50%).

Support --threads=0 to reset the thread limit to the default
value (number of available CPU cores). Use UINT32_MAX instead
of SIZE_MAX as the maximum in args.c. hardware.c was already
expecting uint32_t value.

Cleaned up the output of --help and --long-help.
2009-05-22 11:29:50 +03:00
Lasse Collin
02ddf09bc3 Put the interesting parts of XZ Utils into the public domain.
Some minor documentation cleanups were made at the same time.
2009-04-13 11:27:40 +03:00
Lasse Collin
3084d662d2 Cleanups to the code that detects the amount of RAM and
the number of CPU cores. Added support for using sysinfo()
on Linux systems whose libc lacks appropriate sysconf()
support (at least dietlibc). The Autoconf macros were
split into separate files, and CPU core count detection
was moved from hardware.c to cpucores.h. The core count
isn't used for anything real for now, so a problematic
part in process.c was commented out.
2009-02-14 00:45:29 +02:00
Lasse Collin
bd7ca1dad5 Assume 32 MiB of RAM on unsupported operating systems like
the comment in hardware.c already said.
2009-02-07 17:07:52 +02:00
Lasse Collin
1880a3927b Renamed lzma to xz and lzmadec to xzdec. We create symlinks
lzma, unlzma, and lzcat in "make install" for backwards
compatibility with LZMA Utils 4.32.x; I'm not sure if this
should be the default though.
2008-11-19 23:52:24 +02:00
Renamed from src/lzma/hardware.c (Browse further)