Re: [coreutils] Memory usage of parallel sort

2010-12-18 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: On 17/12/10 19:29, Assaf Gordon wrote: ... Thanks for looking at this! I've not looked into the memory details, but this is another reason to restrict the default number of threads to 8, which we talked about previously... commit

Re: [coreutils] [PATCH] tests: set fail=0 by default

2010-12-18 Thread Paul Eggert
On 12/17/2010 11:55 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: This change probably belongs in gnulib's tests/init.sh, too. OK, I installed the following (slightly different) version of the change into gnulib. Next I'll propagate the latest gnulib version of init.sh into coreutils. diff --git a/ChangeLog

[coreutils] [PATCH] tests: sync init.sh from gnulib

2010-12-18 Thread Paul Eggert
* tests/init.sh (setup_): Initialize fail=0 before invoking mktempd_. Ensure that IFS is defined initially. (mktempd_): Remove fail=0 initialization; no longer needed. --- tests/init.sh | 12 +++- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/tests/init.sh