https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=381873
Forwarding this because it is a GNU issue, not specifically a Novell one. I reproduced this myself with the latest coreutils from git (BTW: You might want to repack that repo, "counting objects" during the clone was rather slow in the initial counting.) Could it be a libiconv problem? Glibc used: 2.8 (i586) Coreutils: v6.11-62-g7c9c6c7 21:15 yaguchi:../rt/bin > LC_ALL=en_US time ./wc /tmp/ARC 3323886 30096741 537371570 /tmp/ARC 10.41user 1.86system 0:14.94elapsed 82%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (13major+177minor)pagefaults 0swaps 21:19 yaguchi:../rt/bin > LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 time ./wc /tmp/ARC 3323886 30096738 537371570 /tmp/ARC 87.21user 1.88system 1:38.89elapsed 90%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (2major+213minor)pagefaults 0swaps So while ARC is definitely hot (cached) after the first run, counting with the utf8 locale still takes up considerately more time. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils