Re: [bug-gawk] An gawk problem.

[Aharon Robbins]

Hi.

Thanks for the update. I think Andy's suggestion is the correct one:
try to run each stage separately and see what is taking so much
time. You can also use tools like top and ps to see which program
is taking all your memory.

In addition, you can invest a little time and modify the awk program
such that you are doing everything in awk. Use asort and/or asorti to get
an additional array for accessing the original one in sorted order,
use a loop to only print as many as you want from the array.

See the gawk documentation.

You can also try using the latest version of gawk.

Thanks,

Arnold