Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Hmm, it sounds like your input data has some very long lines, then. > That would explain at least part of your problem, then. 'sort' needs > to keep at least two lines in main memory to compare them: if single > input lines are many gigabytes long, then 'sort' must consume many > gigabytes of memory, regardless of what parameter you specify with '-S'.
You can run this to find the maximum line length: wc --max-line-length your-data _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
