Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > find attached a pretty old patch from Mandrake that they are still using ... > what do you guys think ? good idea/bad idea ?
That patch causes physmem_total to underestimate the amount of available physical memory on linux-gnu, sunos5, cygwin, and irix6 (but not on other platforms!), by capping it to 1/16 of the address space. But this will cause "sort -S 10%" to not conform to the documentation, as it would use of 1/160 of the address space, not 1/10 of physical memory, when the latter exceeds the former. I suspect the patch is obsolete, as 'sort' has added several sanity checks along these lines over the years. If we knew exactly what the original problem was, I could be more definite about this. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
