On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 07:57:01AM +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
Linda Walsh wrote:
I wondered why I wasn't getting multi-cpu support in my sorts of >128k line files, even when I specified that it should use multiple threads.
It seems SuSE adds a patch to set the max CPU's my machine has to 1, so no matter what I set in --parallel, it uses the smaller of (1, number I ask for).
The default is to use min(available CPU's, number I ask for)...
Yet the OSuSE version is hard-coded to disallow parallel usage.
Could someone point me at the discussion in the archives as to why this was decided?
I don't remember such a discussion, but maybe check the changelog, there ought to be an explanation.
changes has: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Fri Jan 14 14:13:28 CET 2011 - uli@suse.de - sort threading still broken, it deadlocks occasionally; set default number of threads to 1 as a workaround as there were some new versions inbetween perhaps its better now, but someone needs to try. Ciao, Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org