Hi,
I understand the need for external temporary files. (I rewrote dos 3.3
sort for personal use when I got my first computer in 1987).
However on my 8G machine sort imho is allowed to use say 200M or maybe
even 2000M of core memory. If you write a temporary file every
20Mb, there will be such a whole lot of them.
zebigbos:/> l /tmp/sort* | wc -l
163
zebigbos:/> free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 8264484 8100420 164064 0 376756 6853884
-/+ buffers/cache: 869780 7394704
Swap: 0 0 0
zebigbos:/>
It seems that I may be allowed to set this with the -S option. The
manual does not mention a default. A more sensible default would be in
order.
Roger.
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