Jim Meyering wrote:
It would be nice if sort could calculate how many processes it can fork,
and then ensure that it never uses more than say 25% of that number of
process slots.
Well, there's always getrlimit(). I'm not sure about a portable way to
find out what chunk of that is in use, but even limiting process spawns
to 1/4 of the rlimit would help a bit. Of course failing gracefully (or
retrying) would be better.
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Matthew
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