[coreutils] Memory usage of parallel sort

2010-12-17 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, A question regarding the memory usage requirements of the parallel sort: It seems that the memory usage (resident size) increases with the number of threads used. It also seems to me (but not verified) that the increased memory usage happens not at the sorting phase, but at the output ph

Re: [coreutils] Memory usage of parallel sort

2010-12-17 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 17/12/10 19:29, Assaf Gordon wrote: > Hello, > > A question regarding the memory usage requirements of the parallel sort: > It seems that the memory usage (resident size) increases with the number of > threads used. > > It also seems to me (but not verified) that the increased memory usage >

Re: [coreutils] Memory usage of parallel sort

2010-12-17 Thread Chen Guo
Hi Assaf, > On 17/12/10 19:29, Assaf Gordon wrote: >> Hello, >> >> A question regarding the memory usage requirements of the parallel sort: >> It seems that the memory usage (resident size) increases with the number of >> threads used. >> >> It also seems to me (but not verified) that the increase

Re: [coreutils] Memory usage of parallel sort

2010-12-18 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 17/12/10 19:29, Assaf Gordon wrote: ... > Thanks for looking at this! > > I've not looked into the memory details, > but this is another reason to restrict > the default number of threads to 8, > which we talked about previously... > > commit 69ef9deef087b0447c05d9a298