> Sort takes a divide and conquer approach, > by sorting parts of the input to temporary files, > and then merging the results with a bounded amount of memory. > > sort currently defaults to using a large memory buffer > to minimize overhead associated with writing and reading > temp files, so you may be seeing just this large memory > allocation each time. > > The memory allocation can be controlled with --buffer-size
If I have enough memory, is it always faster to sort without using temp files. How to force sort always use memory only? Thanks. -- Regards, Peng
