Hi, There's a bug in all coreutils versions higher than 5.0; essentially, sort -g on a file larger than 25 MB (I tested on a 50MB file -- cat'd /usr/share/dict/words onto itself 10 times). All the memory gets eaten up and all the swap gets eaten up, slowing the machine to a crawl. Regular sort seems to work fine (after a bit of slowdown), but sort -g is relentless and just eats memory/swap.
The other bug is explained here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44403 The patch there is a very simple one, and seems to be ok for us (note that we do apply the i18n patch that's distributed at i18n.org). Thanks, -- Seemant Kulleen http://dev.gentoo.org/~seemant Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x3458780E Key fingerprint = 23A9 7CB5 9BBB 4F8D 549B 6593 EDA2 65D8 3458 780E
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