From: utzoo!henry
Newsgroups: hacknews
Title: sort tempfiles moved 
Article-I.D.: utzoo.2796
Posted: Fri Feb  4 17:31:33 1983
Received: Fri Feb  4 17:31:33 1983

Changed sort(1) to prefer to put its tempfiles in /tmp rather than
/usr/tmp.  Under at least some conditions, this produces a substantial
performance improvement:  /tmp is down with root and the /zoo inode
area, while /usr/tmp is way up at the top of the disk.