On Jan 21, 2004, at 15:43, Sean Ahern wrote:
> However, I don't think you'd want to pull all 2G of text data into
> memory
> for the sort. I would very much doubt if UNIX sort does out-of-core
> processing, which is what you really want for this sort (heh) of thing.
> You'd kill your computer with swapping.
I'd give it a try - people have been recommending GNU sort for at least
a decade because it doesn't have arbitrary limits. The one thing I'd do
is use -T to have it put temp files on a different drive than your
system disk. Unfortunately the version Apple ships is old enough that
it doesn't allow you to limit the main-memory usage directly (newer
versions have a --buffer-size option) but it should be smart enough to
take a fraction less than the total.
Chris
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