On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 16:03:08 -0500 "Stock, Roger W" <[email protected]> wrote:
> We are considering a sort product to replace the Linux sort, but we need to > get a handle on how much sorting we do. > All of our SUSE 10 Linux guests (under VM 5.4 on z10-BC IFLs) are servers and > any programs that run on them would call sort. > We do not have any typical batch sort operations that run on Linux. > > Does anyone have a way of tracking how much the Linux sort is called? acct can tell you for the program, but in actual fact almost every meaningful sort operation in Linux is done by applications calling into library routines and for relatively small data sets in memory. sort and in particular sorting large data sets isn't really an inate part of the Unix world. Other users such as databases tend to do the job internally, and I think you'll find java uses its own internal sorting support too. There are also a host of extremely complicated requirements about replacing the system sort application facilities as they are fully UTF-8 internationalised and localised in many languages. That includes all sorts of fun sort rules. sorting multi-byte characters (eg sorting rules for accepts), multi-character sorting etc. Alan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
