Newbie Question Thread

[Dunnowho69]

Any way to disable second pass on srep? It is it must ?

[wareck]

I think it's mandatory

[Dunnowho69]

Originally Posted by wareck

I think it's mandatory

Sometimes had to face storage issues because of this so thought if it was possible to disable somehow anyway thanks for the reply

[wareck]

you may try to use other deduplicator
Like exdude, dedub from panker.

in another way, system work like this :

Original File => decompress/decode => deduplication (try to find repetitions in files) => compression.

On each step you have 2 files

Orignal file and processed file, it is not uncommon to need a lot of disk space during conversion processus.
In another hand SREP do it a lot in memory. only result is stored.
On my computer I've got 32Gb of ram when I do some huge conversion it's more or less all used.

You may try to change :
-vmfile=FILENAME
-slp-


And for finish, if srep hang or crash during second pass => try other version of srep some of them are more stable
Personally, I use 4.90 in 99% of cases.