Re: GLOBAL is very slow on RedHat Linux 9

[Hideki IWAMOTO]

On Sat, 03 May 2003 18:23:39 +0900, Hideki IWAMOTO wrote...
> I updated OS from Redhat7.3 to Redhat9, and have noticed that
> the speed of GLOBAL became very slow.
> Is there any information about this affair?
> 

The sort command in coreutils released officially is not slow.
Would you add the following line to the INSTALL file?


Index: INSTALL
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/global/global/INSTALL,v
retrieving revision 1.12
diff -u -r1.12 INSTALL
--- INSTALL     5 Jul 2002 07:16:46 -0000       1.12
+++ INSTALL     5 May 2003 23:29:14 -0000
@@ -48,7 +48,11 @@
    You can get id-utils at:
 
        ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/id-utils/
-  
+
+o If you use locale other than C, don't use the internationalized
+  sort command shipped with Redhat Linux.
+  This reduces the performance of GLOBAL remarkably.
+
 
 2. How to install.
 

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