Date:         Tue, 21 Oct 2003 18:33:10 -0400
Reply-To:     Zhonghe Li <zli@HSPH.HARVARD.EDU>
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From:         Zhonghe Li <zli@HSPH.HARVARD.EDU>
Subject:      estimated sorting time
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Hi,

I am sort a 3.7 GB dataset on a computer with 16 free GB hard drive, and 1
GB of RAM.  So i run the tagsort.  It has been 6 hours already.

Can any one tell me how long it may take?

I have the choice of recreate a smaller dataset and run the sort - not
tagsort.  Then the question is how long it takes to run sort of a dataset
of 3 GB on a 20 GB free disk space?

Thank you for your help.

Elena