[daip] MSORT

[Lorant Sjouwerman, NRAO]

FYI, the new MSORT on a nearly sorted 16 GB file, writing back into itself:
(oops, forgot to report about the 'no need to copy tables to itself' bug)


EURO  > MSORT2: Task MSORT  (release of 31DEC03) begins
EURO  > MSORT2: UVCREA: DUPLICATE NAME BI027TEST   .UVCOP .   1
EURO  > MSORT2: MSRTIN: ERROR       6 COPYING TABLES
EURO  > MSORT2: Read UV data for the sort keys
EURO  > MSORT2: Keys read - sort them
EURO  > MSORT2: Keys sorted, order established, now resort
EURO  > MSORT2: Keys now ready to use
EURO  > MSORT2:     584507 unsorted starting at         1 avg sep       15
EURO  > MSORT2: IMSORT: Begin first (neighbor) sort pass
EURO  > MSORT2: Appears to have ended successfully
EURO  > MSORT2: euro         31DEC03 TST: Cpu=     111.9  Real=     984


This used to take FOREVER ( >> several days), now less than 17 minutes!

Great, thanks Eric


Regards,

Loránt Sjouwerman - Scientific Services - lsjouwerman at aoc.nrao.edu
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