On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 09:12:01AM -0500, Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> > That is, rzip fails for most files that it is designed for.
>
> I'm guessing that the problem is the amount of memory you have
> available. rzip will copy into memory up to 900MB of the file at a
> time (see the man page, section "COMPRESSION ALGORITHM"); how much RAM
Hmm, nothing in the man page claims it's copying that much into memory, or
that it needs that much memory. It does refer to "900MB history buffer",
so maybe that means it needs that much memory (in fatc, strace does not
show that it tries to allocate that much memory, all it dos is mmap the
file, but the same could be done by read()ing it).
If that is indeed the case, that explains the problem. It might help if
that gets documented more clearly in the manpage. I somehow doubt that it
needs 900MB of ram, though.
> + swap do you have available?
well, way less :)
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