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If the specified memory usage limit is exceeded when decompressing, B<xz> will display an error and decompressing the file will fail. If the limit is exceeded when compressing, B<xz> will try to scale the settings down so that the limit is no longer exceeded (except when using B<--format=raw> or B<--no-adjust>). This way the operation won't fail unless the limit is very small. The scaling of the settings is done in steps that don't match the compression level presets, for example, if the limit is only slightly less than the amount required for B<xz -9>, the settings will be scaled down only a little, not all the way down to B<xz -8>.