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Why the memory usage of sort does not seem to increase as the input file
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Peng Yu |
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Why the memory usage of sort does not seem to increase as the input file size increases? |
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Mon, 26 May 2014 10:38:05 -0500 |
Hi,
I tried "sort" on some large file. But the memory usage of "sort" does
not seem to be large. This seems to be strange to me, as I think that
sort need to see all the data before completing the sorting process.
Shouldn't the memory usage of "sort" increase as the input size
increases? Thanks.
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Regards,
Peng
- Why the memory usage of sort does not seem to increase as the input file size increases?,
Peng Yu <=