From 18d618e14c042a33ab1e4b9a0f81ba4674a16597 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Petr Zemek Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 10:56:31 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add a warning that decompilations of large binaries may require a lot of RAM into README (#36). --- README.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 54779f88d9..ddd17c90e2 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ Features: Currently, we support only Windows (7 or later) and Linux. +**Warning: Decompilations of larger binaries (1 MB or more) may require a lot of RAM. When running decompilations, we advise you to limit the maximal virtual memory for processes before decompiling to prevent potential swapping and unresponsiveness. On Linux, you can run e.g. `ulimit -Sv 9863168` in your shell to limit the maximal virtual memory to 8 GB.** + ### Windows 1. Either download and unpack a pre-built package from the following list, or build and install the decompiler by yourself (the process is described below):