From 9a3433a7698bac6482a03cfb30334b4701ea60dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 06:51:10 +0000
Subject: (mergefps): Do not allocate at least sort_size bytes for each merge
 buffer. Instead, allocate at least sort_size bytes total.

---
 src/sort.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'src/sort.c')

diff --git a/src/sort.c b/src/sort.c
index 1f59a9b73..17c42633f 100644
--- a/src/sort.c
+++ b/src/sort.c
@@ -1642,7 +1642,7 @@ mergefps (char **files, register int nfiles,
     {
       fps[i] = xfopen (files[i], "r");
       initbuf (&buffer[i], sizeof (struct line),
-	       MAX (merge_buffer_size, sort_size));
+	       MAX (merge_buffer_size, sort_size / nfiles));
       /* If a file is empty, eliminate it from future consideration. */
       while (i < nfiles && !fillbuf (&buffer[i], fps[i], files[i]))
 	{
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