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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apache/1.3.26 Server at alexautils.sourceforge.net Port 80 :-( Regards Paul On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 12:59:10PM -0400, Andrew D Jewell wrote: > You can get our version of coreutils 4.5.3 from > http://alexautils.sourceforge.net/ > > We've had good results with NMERGE up around 1000 > > The merge code in standard sort is O(NMERGE * total_lines) which is > already bad at 16 and terrible if you get much higher. The alexautils > code has different merging code which is O(log(NMERGE) * total_lines) > which works great. > > adj > > > At 12:57 PM +0200 9/30/03, Paul Courbis wrote: > >Hi > > > >I'm using "sort" to, surprisingly, sort huge files (up to 2 GB). Of > >course I had to use the -S switch to tune memory usage. My concern > >is that I > >don't have enough memory to sort in RAM, thus sort is using > >temporary files tat it merges to get the final result. > > > >Having a look to sort's sources I noticed that NMERGE is hardocoded > >(it's not even an option). > > > >My questions are : > > > >- I did a patch to make sort accept a new option (currently called > >-N to setup NMERGE). Is someone interested by this patch ? > >- I'm doing some benches, but I already noticed that 16 (the > >hardcoded value) is not always the best one. For example my first > >serie of benches showed me that 18 is better in this particular > >case. Did someone worked on a model allowing to guess what would be > >the best value for NMERGE for a given set of data to sort ? > > > >Any hint would be apreciated > > > >regards > > > >Paul > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Bug-coreutils mailing list > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
