From: "J.Herre" <jlst@...>
Date: 2004-02-14T04:21:33+09:00
Subject: Re: slow IO


On Feb 13, 2004, at 10:55 AM, David King Landrith wrote:

> We're using Redhat's most recent linux (on a Dual Athlon with 2GB 
> RAM). Why would you think I was using Windows from the example?
>

Sorry, no offense intended.  I read this as a forward slash, i.e. a 
windows command line switch.  My bad.

system("echo \f >> #{outputFile}")

It's possible that you're wasting time in the garbage collector.  Try 
using a static buffer:

buf = input.sysread( count, buf )