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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]
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* Noteworthy changes in release 8.17 (2012-05-10) [stable]