11-17-2014
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Originally Posted by
kogorman3
Nice to know. I tried e4defrag and it showed a fragmentation score of 0 on all directories.
I'm still a bit new to this, even after peeking at the source code. But it seems to me that there are two distinct phases to GNU sort. Both are merge sorts, but there's a big difference between merging in RAM and merging disk files.
Not really.
If your files can fit in memory, either way you do it -- cache or sort buffers -- it will be held in RAM.
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The main point of my optimizing effort turned out to be minimizing the number of file merges.
Yes, too many files
at once is bad since the disk has to seek them individually.
I don't think this has much to do with the size of the temp files as much as their number. Doing a lot of seeking on a non-SSD disk makes its performance
really bad. I once measured a disk's random read performance with caching disabled -- hopping from one sector to another, reading then moving, gets you
fifty kilobytes per second on a disk good for 100MB/s. Using all available RAM is about as bad as turning off caching, by the way. Worse actually -- memory pressure will start pushing out useful things, making programs wait pointlessly for bits of code to return to them at need.
Cache could also explain the differing times your runs take. If there's significant parts of your file left in cache, that could speed up the next run.
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wrap-and-sort
WRAP-AND-SORT(1) General Commands Manual WRAP-AND-SORT(1)
NAME
wrap-and-sort - wrap long lines and sort items in Debian packaging files
SYNOPSIS
wrap-and-sort [options]
DESCRIPTION
wrap-and-sort wraps the package lists in Debian control files. By default the lists will only split into multiple lines if the entries are
longer than 80 characters. wrap-and-sort sorts the package lists in Debian control files and all .install files. Beside that wrap-and-sort
removes trailing spaces in these files.
This script should be run in the root of a Debian package tree. It searches for control, control.in, copyright, copyright.in, install, and
*.install in the debian directory.
OPTIONS
-h, --help
Show this help message and exit.
-a, --wrap-always
Wrap all package lists in the Debian control file even if the entries are shorter than 80 characters and could fit in one line line.
-s, --short-indent
Only indent wrapped lines by one space (default is in-line with the field name).
-b, --sort-binary-packages
Sort binary package paragraphs by name.
-k, --keep-first
When sorting binary package paragraphs, leave the first one at the top. Unqualified debhelper(7) configuration files are applied to
the first package.
-n, --no-cleanup
Do not remove trailing whitespaces.
-d path, --debian-directory=path
Location of the debian directory (default: ./debian).
-f file, --file=file
Wrap and sort only the specified file. You can specify this parameter multiple times. All supported files will be processed if no
files are specified.
-v, --verbose
Print all files that are touched.
AUTHORS
wrap-and-sort and this manpage have been written by Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org>.
Both are released under the ISC license.
DEBIAN
Debian Utilities WRAP-AND-SORT(1)