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bug#12738: 'sort' wastes cpu-cycles of all available cpus
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Schwidom, Frank |
Subject: |
bug#12738: 'sort' wastes cpu-cycles of all available cpus |
Date: |
Fri, 26 Oct 2012 09:12:40 +0200 |
In some situations sort wastes cpu-cycles of all available cpus.
Hi,
I refer to 'sort' of the following Version:
$ sort --version
sort (GNU coreutils) 8.7
Packaged by Gentoo (8.7 (p1))
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Written by Mike Haertel and Paul Eggert.
on the system:
$ uname -a
Linux CUDA 2.6.38-gentoo-r6 #12 SMP Fri Sep 14 12:59:07 CEST 2012 x86_64
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5645 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
The problem causes, if the input of sort is very long but the output is not
taken.
if i call:
# seq 1 10000000 | sort -R | wc -l
10000000
then sort itself uses only circa 10 cpus:
top:
8316 root 20 0 359m 185m 676 S 1009 1.5 4:08.18 sort
or ca. 4 cpus in this case:
# seq 1 10000000 | sort -n | wc -l
10000000
top:
8782 root 20 0 295m 185m 672 S 382 1.5 0:25.18 sort
while sort is running, this behaviour is ok. it would be ok too, if
it would use all cpus.
but, if i use:
# seq 1 1000000 | sort -n | less
and while im not scrolling to the bottom in 'less'
sort uses all cpus
top:
9421 root 20 0 447m 109m 660 R 2295 0.9 3:12.72 sort
in this case, sort is already done sorting (it took and sorted
the whole input and 'less' displays values).
but it takes a lot of cpu-cycles on all cpus.
if i scroll to the bottom, 'less' takes all values of the sort output
and sort will end; this is ok.
Regards
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Frank Schwidom
Dipl.-Inf. (FH)
Hochschule Lausitz (FH)
Fertigungstechnik/ Tribologie
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- bug#12738: 'sort' wastes cpu-cycles of all available cpus,
Schwidom, Frank <=