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bug#8824: sort occasionally hangs - appears to be in a merge-sort loop
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Paul Eggert |
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bug#8824: sort occasionally hangs - appears to be in a merge-sort loop |
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Fri, 10 Jun 2011 09:33:36 -0700 |
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On 06/10/11 06:54, Mina Naguib wrote:
> Given this new information, do you think the behaviour I observed is
> reasonable?
> Or is there still the possibility of a bug worth pursuing ?
I suspect there is a *performance* bug, but not a correctness bug.
Does the performance improve if you use "sort -S 6G"
for the big sort?