Subject: bug#11433: Bug in GNU sort with large value for the -S option

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 09:51:37 -0700

On 05/08/2012 09:01 AM, Rich Burridge wrote:
>   $ /usr/bin/sort -S 4G <input >output
>   /usr/bin/sort: -S argument `4G' too large

I don't observe this behavior with
sort 8.16 on CentOS 5.8 on x86-64.

Perhaps you're running on 32-bit platforms,
for which 4 GiB is indeed too large?
If so, 'sort' is operating correctly.