If I have a 300M text-file to sort, and I run 'sort in.txt > out.txt' (with sort 5.0.90), sort will use roughly 25M of memory, and create temp-files of roughly 16M in size.
If I call 'sort -S 120M in.txt > out.txt', or 'sort -S120M < in.txt > out.txt', the job will use much more memory (as expected), create much larger tempfiles (77M in my test case), and generally complete much sooner. However, if I call 'cat in.txt | sort -S 120M > out.txt', sort seems to ignore the '-S' parameter and behave exactly as if it wasn't provided. Is this a bug or somehow expected behavior? -Michael __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
