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[KaktoR]

Use these parameters for srep (just copy&paste)

:m3f:a16:d1g

Example

[pslove]

Originally Posted by KaktoR

Use these parameters for srep (just copy&paste)

:m3f:a16:d1g

Example

Unfortunately same error I think:

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 Creating Setup-1a.bin file, Please Wait...
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Executing external file (Call Before)...
FreeArc 0.67 (March 15 2014) creating archive: Conversion_Output\Setup-1a.bin
Compressing 33 files, 43,614,224,208 bytes. Processed  10.0%
Compressing 92,960,894,073 bytes with "OTHERS\SREP\srep.exe" -m3f -a16 -d1g  InFile OutFile
SREP 3.2: huge-dictionary LZ77 preprocessor   (c) Bulat.Ziganshin********com
April 6, 2013    homepage: http://freearc.org/research/SREP.aspx
Usage: SREP [options] infile [outfile]
   infile/outfile may be specified as "-" that means stdin/stdout
   "SREP [options] infile" compress data to infile.srep
   "SREP [options] infile.srep" decompress data to infile
   "SREP [options]" compress or decompress data from stdin to stdout
Options are:
   -m1: check matches by SHA1 digest (compression memory = 7-10% of filesize)
   -m2: check matches by rereading old data (compression memory = 3-6% of filesize)
   -m3: byte-accurate matches and rereading (compression memory = 7-12% of filesize)
   -l: minimum LZ match length, default 512
   -c: size of hash chunk, by default as small as required to find all these LZ matches
   -a: compression accelerator (0/1/2/4/8/16/32/64). -a0 is slowest but requires least memory
   -m1f..-m3f: future-LZ - decompression dictionary will hold only future matches
   -memBYTES: amount of RAM used by future-LZ decompression (extra goes into VM file)
      -mem75% AKA -mem75p means "use no more than 75% of RAM" - that's by default
      -mem600mb means itself
      -mem75%-600mb means "use no more than 75% of RAM minus 600 mb"
   -mBYTES: don't store matches larger than BYTES on future-LZ decompression
   -d: decompression (for -m1..m3 requires only 24 mb of memory besides of OS I/O buffers)
   -delete: delete source file after successful (de)compression
   -sBYTES: explicitly specify filesize (for compression from stdin), default 25gb
   -index=FILENAME: read/write index of compressed data into separate file
   -temp=[FILENAME]: keep uncompressed data in the file in stdin-to-stdout mode, default srep-data.tmp
   -vmfile=FILENAME: temporary file used by Virtual Memory manager, default srep-virtual-memory.tmp
   -vmblock=BYTES: size of one block in VM temporary file, default 8mb
   -nomd5: don't store/check MD5 checksum of every block
   -mmap: use memory-mapped files for match checking
   -slp[+/-/]: force/disable/try(default) large pages support
   -pc[max_offset]: display performance counters [for matches closer than max_offset]
   -s: save printed stats from overwriting
   -v[0..2]: verbosity level
   -rem...: command-line remark
Errorlevel=2
 10.0%
ERROR: general (de)compression error in srep_new:m3f:a16:d1g

[Gehrman]

Your RAM is not enough to try with -a2.

[pslove]

Originally Posted by Gehrman

Your RAM is not enough to try with -a2.

I have 24 gigabytes of ram but I'll try with -a2 and report back.

EDIT: nope same error

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Creating Setup-1a.bin file, Please Wait...
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Executing external file (Call Before)...
FreeArc 0.67 (March 15 2014) creating archive: Conversion_Output\Setup-1a.bin
Compressing 33 files, 43,614,224,208 bytes. Processed  10.0%
Compressing 92,960,894,073 bytes with "OTHERS\SREP\srep.exe" -m3f -a2 -d1g  InFile OutFile
 10.0%SREP 3.2: huge-dictionary LZ77 preprocessor   (c) Bulat.Ziganshin********com
April 6, 2013    homepage: http://freearc.org/research/SREP.aspx
Usage: SREP [options] infile [outfile]
   infile/outfile may be specified as "-" that means stdin/stdout
   "SREP [options] infile" compress data to infile.srep
   "SREP [options] infile.srep" decompress data to infile
   "SREP [options]" compress or decompress data from stdin to stdout
Options are:
   -m1: check matches by SHA1 digest (compression memory = 7-10% of filesize)
   -m2: check matches by rereading old data (compression memory = 3-6% of filesize)
   -m3: byte-accurate matches and rereading (compression memory = 7-12% of filesize)
   -l: minimum LZ match length, default 512
   -c: size of hash chunk, by default as small as required to find all these LZ matches
   -a: compression accelerator (0/1/2/4/8/16/32/64). -a0 is slowest but requires least memory
   -m1f..-m3f: future-LZ - decompression dictionary will hold only future matches
   -memBYTES: amount of RAM used by future-LZ decompression (extra goes into VM file)
      -mem75% AKA -mem75p means "use no more than 75% of RAM" - that's by default
      -mem600mb means itself
      -mem75%-600mb means "use no more than 75% of RAM minus 600 mb"
   -mBYTES: don't store matches larger than BYTES on future-LZ decompression
   -d: decompression (for -m1..m3 requires only 24 mb of memory besides of OS I/O buffers)
   -delete: delete source file after successful (de)compression
   -sBYTES: explicitly specify filesize (for compression from stdin), default 25gb
   -index=FILENAME: read/write index of compressed data into separate file
   -temp=[FILENAME]: keep uncompressed data in the file in stdin-to-stdout mode, default srep-data.tmp
   -vmfile=FILENAME: temporary file used by Virtual Memory manager, default srep-virtual-memory.tmp
   -vmblock=BYTES: size of one block in VM temporary file, default 8mb
   -nomd5: don't store/check MD5 checksum of every block
   -mmap: use memory-mapped files for match checking
   -slp[+/-/]: force/disable/try(default) large pages support
   -pc[max_offset]: display performance counters [for matches closer than max_offset]
   -s: save printed stats from overwriting
   -v[0..2]: verbosity level
   -rem...: command-line remark
Errorlevel=2
 10.0%
ERROR: general (de)compression error in srep_new:m3f:a2:d1g