From 8523a37c856b8fca18bbab7886bf433e4542d4bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf8?q?P=C3=A1draig=20Brady?=
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:02:19 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] doc: mention the improved sort memory allocation * NEWS: Mention the improvement. --- NEWS | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) 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] -- 2.7.4