It was only speeding up compression a small amount, yet adversely affected compression and would segfault due to the size not being consistent on successive passes.
Display the actual amount of ram detected, and then decrease the value for calculating what the calculated window will be.
Move the variables to where they're only used locally.
As we can work out what that compression overhead is, we can factor that into testing how much ram we can allocate.
There is no advantage to running multiple threads when there is no compression back end so drop to 1 only.
Limit ram for compression back end to 1/3 ram regardless for when OSs lie due to heavy overcommit.
Add one more thread on compression and decompression to account for the staggered nature of thread recruitment.
Make the initial buffer slightly smaller and make it progressively larger, thus recruiting threads sooner and more evenly.
This also speeds up decompression for the same reason.
Check the amount of memory being used by each thread on decompression to ensure we don't try to recruit too much ram.
Update main help screen to include environment settings.
Update to respect $TMP environment variable for TMP files.
Updated control structure to include tmpdir pointer.
Update lrzip.conf parser to respect -U -M options.
Update lrzip.conf example to include new parameters.
Reorder main Switch loop in main.c for readability.
Have MAXRAM and control.window be exclusive. MAXRAM wins.
Have UNLIMITED and control.window be exclusive. UNLIMITED wins.
Have UNLIMITED and MAXRAM be exclusive. UNLIMITED wins.
Corrects heuristic computation in rzip.c which would override
MAXRAM or UNLIMITED if control.window set
Show heuristically computed control.window when computed.
Remove display compression level from control.window verbose output.
Update print_verbose format for Testing for incompressible data in stream.c
to omit extra \n.
Changes by Peter Hyman <pete@peterhyman.com>
Add the md5 value to the end of each archive.
This can then be used for integrity testing instead of crc32.
Keep crc in new archives to maintain compatibility with version 0.5 files.
Use md5 integrity testing on decompression when available in preference, and disable calculation of crc32.
Display the choice of integrity testing in verbose output and when -i is used.
Display the md5 and crc values when max verbosity, file info, or display hash is enabled.
Store a new flag in the magic header to show that the md5 value is stored at the end of the file.
Update the magic header information document.
