Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 13:57:01 -0500 Message-Id: <200202191857.NAA31723@daedalus.cs.brandeis.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: daedalus.cs.brandeis.edu: zippy set sender to zippy AT daedalus DOT cs DOT brandeis DOT edu using -f From: Patrick Tufts To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: 1.4.5 gnu sort 2.0.16 extremely slow under Win98 (tiny default buffer) Note-from-DJ: This may be spam I looked at the temp files sort creates and noticed that they were around 700 bytes (bytes, not kilobytes) in size. The normal behavior of sort is to create temp files of around 16kB in size. When I use the --buffer-size option to force a large buffer, like --buffer-size=200000 (200MB) sort completes in seconds. I'm running sort like this: cat <47k line file> | perl -ne "