Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!houxz!vax135!floyd!harpo!decvax!mcnc!rti!rti-sel!trt From: trt@rti-sel.UUCP Newsgroups: net.general,net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: UNIX system to house 140 mbyte unformatted textual dbase? Message-ID: <1122@rti-sel.UUCP> Date: Tue, 29-May-84 18:36:06 EDT Article-I.D.: rti-sel.1122 Posted: Tue May 29 18:36:06 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 1-Jun-84 07:25:11 EDT References: wjh12.476 Lines: 15 I ran this on a "Gould Concept 32/8750" (whew) when it was fairly idle. The filesystem is 1k/8k, but there are only 102 1K incore buffers. Script started on Tue May 29 18:34:20 1984 rti-sel% time wc /usr/dict/words 24474 24474 201039 /usr/dict/words 1.2 real 0.6 user 0.2 sys rti-sel% time egrep xxx /usr/dict/words 1.1 real 0.5 user 0.3 sys rti-sel% ^D script done on Tue May 29 18:34:45 1984 I have about 5 megabytes of old news article titles (plus article ID) so it is handy to have a fast grep. Tom Truscott