Re: buffering

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Leif,

Out of curiosity, why are you doing all this torture?  :)

Don

On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, Leif Svalgaard wrote:

> As part of my ongoing investigation of sorting large files,
> I'm reading the files myself into storage to sort them there.
> I have a question about buffering. It doesn't make sense
> that it takes 15 minutes to read 10Mb (1,000,000 records
> of 10 bytes each), so I must not have the right buffering
> set up. What controls that? I was under the (mistaken ?)
> impression that suitable buffering was done by OS/400
> so I don't have to worry about it. If that's the case, it
> is doing a poor job. More likely, I need to do something
> to get better buffering. What?
> 
> Leif Svalgaard
> 
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