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| author | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2012-07-12 15:02:19 +0100 |
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| committer | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2012-07-12 23:56:42 +0100 |
| commit | 8523a37c856b8fca18bbab7886bf433e4542d4bb (patch) | |
| tree | 3fb09d224fb7cc5ba50e3cd87167489ed2da30b8 | |
| parent | 3900871c3a07c9c81286cb7870bd8219c8293ab1 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-8523a37c856b8fca18bbab7886bf433e4542d4bb.tar.xz | |
doc: mention the improved sort memory allocation
* NEWS: Mention the improvement.
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@@ -52,6 +52,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- or unwritable output. Sort now diagnoses certain errors at start-up, rather than after potentially expensive processing. + sort now allocates no more than 75% of physical memory by default, + to better share system resources, and thus operate more efficiently. + [The default max memory usage changed from 50% to 100% in coreutils-8.16] + * Noteworthy changes in release 8.17 (2012-05-10) [stable] |