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Fix crash when algo init function returns error.

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Fix LZFX error handling.
More updates to README.
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Moinak Ghosh 2012-07-31 21:07:35 +05:30
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== Changes since 0.5 Alpha release ==
Further improve LZMA compression parameters to utilize all the 14 levels.
Tweak some Rabin parmeters for better reduction with zlib and Bzip2.
Increase the small size slabs a bit.
Fix slab sizing.
Fix buffer size computation when allocating Rabin block array.
Reduce memory usage of Rabin block array.
Add an SSE optimization for bsdiff.

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README.md
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@ -99,18 +99,31 @@ Zlib - Fast, better compression.
Levels: 1 - 9
Bzip2 - Slow, much better compression than Zlib.
Levels: 1 - 9
LZMA - Very slow. Extreme compression.
Levels: 1 - 14
Till level 9 it is standard LZMA parameters. Levels 10 - 12 use
more memory and higher match iterations so are slower. Levels
13 and 14 use larger dictionaries upto 256MB and really suck up
RAM. Use these levels only if you have at the minimum 4GB RAM on
your system.
PPMD - Slow. Extreme compression for Text, average compression for binary.
This also requires lots of RAM similar to LZMA.
Levels: 1 - 14.
Adapt - Very slow synthetic mode. Both Bzip2 and PPMD are tried per chunk and
better result selected.
Levels: 1 - 14
Adapt2 - Ultra slow synthetic mode. Both LZMA and PPMD are tried per chunk and
better result selected. Can give best compression ration when splitting
better result selected. Can give best compression ratio when splitting
file into multiple chunks.
Levels: 1 - 14
Since both LZMA and PPMD are used together memory requirements are
quite extensive especially if you are also using extreme levels above
10. For example with 64MB chunk, Level 14, 2 threads and with or without
dedupe, it uses upto 3.5GB physical RAM. So minimum requirement is 6GB
RAM *and* at least 4GB physical swap.
It is possible for a single chunk to span the entire file if enough RAM is
available. However for adaptive modes to be effective for large files, especially
@ -119,10 +132,14 @@ algorithm can be selected for textual and binary portions.
Caveats
=======
This utility can gobble up RAM depending on compression algorithm,
This utility is not meant for resource constrained environments. Minimum memory
usage (RES/RSS) with barely meaningful settings is around 10MB. This occurs when
using the minimal LZFX compression algorithm at level 2 with a 1MB chunk size and
running 2 threads.
Normally this utility requires lots of RAM depending on compression algorithm,
compression level, and dedupe being enabled. Larger chunk sizes can give
better compression ratio but at the same time use more RAM.
In some cases for files less than a gigabyte. Using Delta Compression in addition
to exact Dedupe can have a slight negative impact on LZMA compression ratio
especially when using the large-window ultra compression levels above 12.
especially when using the large-window ultra compression levels above 10.

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lzfx_compress.c
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@ -103,7 +103,8 @@ lz_fx_compress(void *src, size_t srclen, void *dst, size_t *dstlen,
unsigned int _dstlen = *dstlen;
rv = lzfx_compress(src, _srclen, dst, &_dstlen, lzdat->htab_bits);
if (rv == -1) {
if (rv != 0) {
if (rv != LZFX_ESIZE)
lz_fx_err(rv);
return (-1);
}
@ -121,7 +122,7 @@ lz_fx_decompress(void *src, size_t srclen, void *dst, size_t *dstlen,
unsigned int _dstlen = *dstlen;
rv = lzfx_decompress(src, _srclen, dst, &_dstlen);
if (rv == -1) {
if (rv != 0) {
lz_fx_err(rv);
return (-1);
}

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@ -890,7 +890,7 @@ start_compress(const char *filename, uint64_t chunksize, int level)
if (nprocs > 1) fprintf(stderr, "s");
fprintf(stderr, "\n");
dary = (struct cmp_data **)slab_alloc(NULL, sizeof (struct cmp_data *) * nprocs);
dary = (struct cmp_data **)slab_calloc(NULL, nprocs, sizeof (struct cmp_data *));
if (enable_rabin_scan)
cread_buf = (uchar_t *)slab_alloc(NULL, compressed_chunksize + CHDR_SZ);
else
@ -1101,7 +1101,10 @@ comp_done:
if (err) {
if (compfd != -1 && !pipe_mode)
unlink(tmpfile1);
if (filename)
fprintf(stderr, "Error compressing file: %s\n", filename);
else
fprintf(stderr, "Error compressing\n");
} else {
/*
* Write a trailer of zero chunk length.
@ -1133,6 +1136,7 @@ comp_done:
}
if (dary != NULL) {
for (i = 0; i < nprocs; i++) {
if (!dary[i]) continue;
slab_free(NULL, dary[i]->uncompressed_chunk);
slab_free(NULL, dary[i]->cmp_seg);
if (enable_rabin_scan) {