X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SARE_SUB_OBFU_Z,SPF_HELO_PASS,TW_BL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Trace: 816890768/mk-filter-3.mail.uk.tiscali.com/B2C/$THROTTLED_DYNAMIC/b2c-CUSTOMER-DYNAMIC-IP/79.68.100.227/None/drstacey AT tiscali DOT co DOT uk X-SBRS: None X-RemoteIP: 79.68.100.227 X-IP-MAIL-FROM: drstacey AT tiscali DOT co DOT uk X-SMTP-AUTH: X-Originating-Country: GB/UNITED KINGDOM X-MUA: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121026 Thunderbird/16.0.2 X-IP-BHB: Once X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApIBAMYVpFBPRGTj/2dsb2JhbAANN8cnQD0WGAMCAQIBWAgBAYgSp2WTVY8ygycDlxiEPI1a Message-ID: <50A41697.3080406@tiscali.co.uk> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 22:09:27 +0000 From: David Stacey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121026 Thunderbird/16.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: xz -9 : Cannot allocate memory Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com I am trying to use 'xz -9' to compress a file, but the programme exits with the error message 'Cannot allocate memory'. Here's what I tried: $ echo Hello World > compress_me.txt $ xz -9 compress_me.txt xz: compress_me.txt: Cannot allocate memory $ xz --version xz (XZ Utils) 5.0.2 liblzma 5.0.2 Having read http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-maxmem.html I tried the following: $ peflags --cygwin-heap /usr/bin/xz.exe /usr/bin/xz.exe: initial Cygwin heap size: 0 (0x0) MB $ peflags --cygwin-heap=1024 /usr/bin/xz.exe /usr/bin/xz.exe: initial Cygwin heap size: 1024 (0x400) MB $ xz -9 compress_me.txt And this worked. Is this the correct way to fix the problem? If so, please could we increment the heap size for xz in a post install script? Many thanks, Dave. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple