Has anyone noticed an increase in runtime for sort? I’m having to sort large, 30+ GB text files, and I’ve noticed a substantial increase in the time needed to sort files in 11.4. Files that take maybe two hours to sort under previous conditions now take multiple hours. Any thoughts? Am I going crazy? Both? Thanks :).
Might want to make sort less nice. GUI elements may be using more time slices and giving less time to background process.
On 2011-03-10 23:36, xveinx wrote:
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> Has anyone noticed an increase in runtime for sort? I’m having to sort
> large, 30+ GB text files, and I’ve noticed a substantial increase in the
> time needed to sort files in 11.4. Files that take maybe two hours to
> sort under previous conditions now take multiple hours. Any thoughts? Am
> I going crazy? Both? Thanks :).
Not everybody has a 30 GB file to sort 
If you can, you could install two minimal systems in the same computer: one
11.4, another 11.3 or whatever you used before. Then run the test on both,
using “time … whatever” to time the process. Once done, report in Bugzilla.
I remember that once a library in the released distro was a debug version
of the library, which can be useful for factory. It could be something like
that or some setting that they have forgotten to remove. You are in a good
position to check this.
I have a laptop with 11.2 and 11.4, I could test it if I had a big enough
text file to sort.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)