GNU bug report logs - #8824
sort occasionally hangs - appears to be in a merge-sort loop

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Mina Naguib <mina.naguib <at> bloomdigital.com>

Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 20:41:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Mina Naguib <mina.naguib <at> bloomdigital.com>
Cc: 8824 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8824: sort occasionally hangs - appears to be in a merge-sort loop
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?
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