makehistory performance

[George Lindholm]

Katsuhiro Kondou wrote:
> 
> In article <NDBBKHFEKJBMNBMBFHPPKEKKCAAA.George.Lindholm at ubc.ca>,
>         "George Lindholm" <George.Lindholm at ubc.ca> wrote;
> 
> } It took makehistory 6 hours to go through all the articles.
> 
> Have you specified '-l' with makehistory?

Since I had to regenerate the overview database again I gave it
a try. This time 'makehistory -l 500000', using GNU sort (instead of
Solaris sort), took 4.75 hours.

   George
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