sorting a strange file

[wavic]

Sorting it in memory. I google it and I think the quick sort algorithm is a good option.

[Skaperen]

what does sorted() use? "quick" for this case is how quick i can code it.

[wavic]

Don't know what 'sorted' is using.

[Gribouillis]

You could perhaps create a huge ramdisk and run GNU sort in the ramdisk (although the program may be using temporary files on the hard drive).

[Skaperen]

RAM gives me enough memory to hold one copy. swap space adds one one to that. file system space has the original file, which i need to keep, and has space for one more copy, the sorted result. the /tmp space is not big enough for even one copy (has only 4GB total). i might be able to squeeze in one more copy if i could merge all the empty spaces i have.

[wavic]

Well,you can sort it in place then.