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Date:      Thu, 04 Oct 2012 18:16:29 +0200
From:      Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Dennis Glatting <freebsd@penx.com>
Cc:        Oleg Moskalenko <oleg.moskalenko@citrix.com>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [HEADSUP] Upcoming GNU sort removal
Message-ID:  <506DB65D.7000009@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <1349362250.83035.3.camel@btw.pki2.com>
References:  <506D6AA3.7010504@FreeBSD.org> <1349362250.83035.3.camel@btw.pki2.com>

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Em 04-10-2012 16:50, Dennis Glatting escreveu:
> On Thu, 2012-10-04 at 12:53 +0200, Gabor Kovesdan wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > 
>> > it has been more than 3 months ago that BSD sort became default in HEAD
>> > and no serious complaints have been raised against it since then so I
>> > plan to permanently remove GNU sort from head in the next days. If you
>> > have any objection, please raise it now.
>> > 
> Initially I had problems with multi TB files (--unique, five to ten
> files) but I haven't had to do that in two(?) months. I will be getting
> back to that project in a month or so.
> 
> It challanges a system's resources. :)

And did it go much better with base GNU sort? It's quite an extreme
case... :) Multi GB is also rare not speaking about multi TB...

Gabor



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