Re: TERRIBLE sort performance in RedHat 9.0

[Philip Rowlands]

On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Mike Westall wrote:

>Thanks for replying, but I was complaining
>about the performance of
>
><<sort>>
>
>and not grep. Does the same disease afflict
>both????

Sorry, my mistake; it is the same disease though, and I think this
describes the problem you're seeing:

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=90279

Now that RHL9 is out of support, you'll have to hunt around for a
suitable update. Of course, you could always just build from the latest
source, but if you need a Redhat-provided drop-in package I'd try
looking in Fedora Core 1 or 2, or the development "rawhide"
repositories.


Cheers,
Phil