On 07/11/2012 12:17 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 07/10/2012 07:31 AM, Jeff Janes wrote: >> Yes, that fixed the problem. > > OK, thanks for checking; I pushed it into the coreutils > master on savannah.
Probably worth mentioning in NEWS because of the significant potential performance impact? commit 96168117cbde9cb68dabbce2cf34848957462d49 Author: Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> Date: Thu Jul 12 15:02:19 2012 +0100 doc: mention the improved sort memory allocation * NEWS: Mention the improvement. diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 3aff3a8..836ecec 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -52,6 +52,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- or unwritable output. Sort now diagnoses certain errors at start-up, rather than after potentially expensive processing. + sort by default, will not directly use more than 75% of physical memory, + to better share system resources, and thus operate more efficiently. + [The default max memory usage changed from 50% to 100% in coreutils-8.16] + * Noteworthy changes in release 8.17 (2012-05-10) [stable]
