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diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 00a557578..a74f64599 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -4190,10 +4190,11 @@ disks and controllers. @item --parallel=@var{n} @opindex --parallel @cindex multithreaded sort -Limit the number of sorts run in parallel to @var{n}. By default, -@var{n} is set to the number of available processors, and values -greater than that are reduced to that limit. Also see -@ref{nproc invocation}. +Set the number of sorts run in parallel to @var{n}. By default, +@var{n} is set to the number of available processors, but limited +to 8, as there are diminishing performance gains after that. +Note also that using @var{n} threads increases the memory usage by +a factor of log @var{n}. Also see @ref{nproc invocation}. @item -u @itemx --unique |