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[coreutils] over aggressive threads in sort

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Message #17 received at 7489 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: DJ Lucas <dj <at> linuxfromscratch.org>
Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, coreutils <at> gnu.org, 7489 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7489: [coreutils] over aggressive threads in sort
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 03:32:37 +0000

On 27/11/10 03:00, DJ Lucas wrote:
> 
> Setting LANG/LC_ALL to C or
> POSIX works around it, as well as --parallel=1. I've added a quick and
> really ugly workaround in the interim so that I can continue and get
> some work done (using getenv("LC_COLLATE"), and testing only against !=
> POSIX and != C, setting nthreads=1). Confirmed that the correct encoding
> is displayed with --debug with the workaround in place.

Best workaround I think is to leave the code alone,
and set OMP_NUM_THREADS=1 in your env
as otherwise you may get invalid results
in any locale.

cheers,
Pádraig.

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