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bug#10877: Wimpy external files.
From: |
Rogier Wolff |
Subject: |
bug#10877: Wimpy external files. |
Date: |
Sun, 26 Feb 2012 07:53:11 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) |
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 02:59:21PM +0000, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Some very quick testing here (a while ago), shows -S2M -T/dev/shm
> was as fast or faster than big buffers, as well as being "nicer" to
> the rest of the system.
If that is the case, I expect it is still way faster to sort chunks of
the processor cache size, and then merge them in memory before writing
out chunks of a gigabyte (in my case with 8G RAM) to disk.
On the other hand. I'm not sure how efficient the 500-way merge is
going to be.
Roger.
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- bug#10877: Wimpy external files., Rogier Wolff, 2012/02/24
- bug#10877: Wimpy external files., Paul Eggert, 2012/02/24
- bug#10877: Wimpy external files., Rogier Wolff, 2012/02/24
- bug#10877: Wimpy external files., Rogier Wolff, 2012/02/25
- bug#10877: Wimpy external files., Paul Eggert, 2012/02/25
- bug#10877: Wimpy external files., Rogier Wolff, 2012/02/26
- bug#10877: Wimpy external files., Paul Eggert, 2012/02/26
- bug#10877: Wimpy external files., Rogier Wolff, 2012/02/26