Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Fri, 2 Mar 2012, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: >> >> I tried to test how much peak memory 'xz' uses to decompress the >> autoconf tarball but was (apparently) defeated by the strange way >> that 'xz' is linked. I will try again with a different tool this >> weekend. > > Ok, I have now measured how much memory the 'xz' I have here requires > under Linux to decompress the autoconf beta tarball. It requires > 67,184,168 bytes of heap memory. This seems to match the xz > documentation for the -9 compression level. The autoconf tarball is not large enough to warrant using xz's -9 option. A simple xz -e (i.e., use the default of -6) should be fine. _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
