Re: writing multiple files vs single file using fwrite/fopen
"Rahul" <rahulsharma@lucent.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
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My Problem is as follows
When the Writer thread creates and writer date into 400 different
files then the end to end jobtime is ~ 280 seconds (cpu usage time
remains same with teh below case)
Instead of creating 400 different files if I overwrite in a single
file always then the end to end jobtime is ~ 200 seconds.
So the slowdows is happening because of creating and writing into 400
different files.
I am using fopen/fwrite.
I want to know why is writing into multiple files slow.
If my understanding is correct, when you write data to multiple files, the
total time is ~280 seconds.
Instead, if you write all your data to a single file, the total jobtime is
~200 seconds.
Well, I think that each time you call fopen you have an overhead (the
operating system must create a new file), so the file-opening overheads (for
each file you create) add up and are the main cause of the 80 seconds more
time.
Giovanni
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