Bo Borgerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Muir Sharnoff wrote: >> I've got 200 1GB pre-sorted files. If I try to merge >> them with sort -m, it is obvioulsy trying to do too much >> work: after running for a couple minutes, it has not >> produced any output but it has made a 5 GB temporary >> file. >> >> When the input is pre-sorted, no temporary file should >> be required. >> >> Output should begin immediately. > > > Hi David, > > The reason you're not seeing output immediately is because sort > internally limits the number of files it will read at once. By default > this limit is set to 16. When more files are to be merged, sort uses > temporary files. > > Starting in release 7.0 this limit will be modifiable on the > command-line using the --bath-size=N option. With 200 files you'll
--batch-size=N, of course ;-) If you'd like to try a test release which includes the new feature, this is the latest: http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.gz 8.8 MB http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.lzma 3.7 MB _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
