Subject: Re: bug#8824: sort occasionally hangs - appears to be in a merge-sort loop

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 09:33:36 -0700

On 06/10/11 06:54, Mina Naguib wrote:

> Given this new information, do you think the behaviour I observed is reasonable?
> Or is there still the possibility of a bug worth pursuing ?

I suspect there is a *performance* bug, but not a correctness bug.

Does the performance improve if you use "sort -S 6G"
for the big sort?