Re: TERRIBLE sort performance in RedHat 9.0

[Mike Westall]

Thanks for replying, but I was complaining
about the performance of

<<sort>>

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
>>when trying to sort on a RH9.0 system:


Stop right there - Unicode problems. See:
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2004-083.html

And the changelogs in:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/9/en/os/i386/grep-2.5.1-7.8.i386.rpm
ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/SRPMS/grep-2.5.1-29.src.rpm


Cheers,
Phil

P.S. grep is not a coreutil, BTW