X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,SARE_SUB_OBFU_Z,TW_BL,TW_YG X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <50A47226.2080506@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 05:40:06 +0100 From: marco atzeri User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121026 Thunderbird/16.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: xz -9 : Cannot allocate memory References: <50A41697 DOT 3080406 AT tiscali DOT co DOT uk> In-Reply-To: <50A41697.3080406@tiscali.co.uk> 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 On 11/14/2012 11:09 PM, David Stacey wrote: > 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? a lot of programs have "Cygwin heap size: 0 (0x0) MB" but they work anyway so the root cause is somewhere else. > Dave. please look at > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html specially the "Run cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out and include that file as an attachment in your report" Marco -- 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