Jim Meyering wrote: > 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. To clarify, using --extreme (-e) with no compression preset is usually best. _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
