From: Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 14:02:19 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: doc: mention the improved sort memory allocation
X-Git-Tag: v8.18~27
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8523a37c856b8fca18bbab7886bf433e4542d4bb;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Fcoreutils.git

doc: mention the improved sort memory allocation

* NEWS: Mention the improvement.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 3aff3a8..b8d3cbb 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -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]