Re: TERRIBLE sort performance in RedHat 9.0

2004-10-11 Thread P
I reported that: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82032 Pádraig. ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: TERRIBLE sort performance in RedHat 9.0

2004-10-09 Thread Philip Rowlands
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Mike Westall wrote: >Thanks for replying, but I was complaining >about the performance of > ><> > >and not grep. Does the same disease afflict >both Sorry, my mistake; it is the same disease though, and I think this describes the problem you're seeing: http://bugzilla.red

Re: TERRIBLE sort performance in RedHat 9.0

2004-10-08 Thread Mike Westall
Thanks, I'll try the official code out. the LC_ALL=C appeared to make no diff. Its not a critical problem to me since the RH 7.2 sort works just fine on the RH 9.0 systems. RH-9.0 has been out so long I was amazed that a google search of for redhat sort performance yielded no hits. Maybe no one

Re: TERRIBLE sort performance in RedHat 9.0

2004-10-08 Thread Philip Rowlands
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Mike Westall wrote: >The file fack.0-1.dif is an ASCII text file of 54,853 lines >with 4 columns of numeric data. I noticed very slow performance >when trying to sort on a RH9.0 system: Stop right there - Unicode problems. See: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2004-083.html

Re: TERRIBLE sort performance in RedHat 9.0

2004-10-08 Thread Mike Westall
Thanks for replying, but I was complaining about the performance of <> and not grep. Does the same disease afflict both On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Mike Westall wrote: >>The file fack.0-1.dif is an ASCII text file of 54,853 lines >>with 4 columns of numeric data. I noticed very slow performance >>whe

Re: TERRIBLE sort performance in RedHat 9.0

2004-10-08 Thread Paul Eggert
Mike Westall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Any ideas whats up with this What happens when you compile and use the latest stable coreutils release instead? That way, we can try to isolate whether your problem is specific to Red Hat's changes to "sort". ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreuti

TERRIBLE sort performance in RedHat 9.0

2004-10-08 Thread Mike Westall
The file fack.0-1.dif is an ASCII text file of 54,853 lines with 4 columns of numeric data. I noticed very slow performance when trying to sort on a RH9.0 system: projects/nettraf/sriram/traces0 ==> time sort -n -k2 < fack.0-1.dif > junk.srt real7m42.905s user7m42.650s sys 0m0.090s