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1 total messages Started by Jeff Deifik Fri, 18 Oct 1985 22:42

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Author: Jeff Deifik
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1985 22:42

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I am attempting to sort a text file with the following characteristics:
2722 blocks
11343 lines
variable length lines maximum 32K
stream LF
carraige return carriage control
1848 characters/line actual maximum

I defined sortwork0..9 to be on 5 different big disks and said
$sort/work_files=1 foo bar

My working set went up to 6087
The free disk space on one disk went down by 500,000 blocks
Sort seemed to use space from mainly sortwork1
I aborted sort when the disk space on one disk ran low
On other runs sort reported out of disk space, and aborted

Why did sort try to use 500,000 blocks of space?
What can I do to sort this file?
	(I really want the key to be the entire line of text)

	Jeff Deifik	jdeifik@usc-isib.ARPA	jdeifik@isi.ARPA
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