Re: Command line programs and windows XP

From: Michael Prager (Mike.Prager.indigo_at_noaa.gov)
Date: 05/11/04 

Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 13:45:09 -0400

"Stephen White" <S.White@irl.cri.nz> wrote:

>I have a moderately complex fortran program, compiled with Compaq visual
>fortran. This is run from the command line.
> If I run this with output to the screen it runs in a few seconds and gets
>almost 100% of the CPU.
> If output is to a file (opened in the program) then it takes minutes to run
>getting between 0 - 5 % of the CPU.
>Running with output to stdout but redirected to a file (>) is also slow but
>faster than when the file is opened in the program (different buffer sizes
>?)
>
>I have tried playing around with system settings for foreground and
>background without changing this behaviour.
>
>has anyony any suggestions as to whatt is causing this and how to fix it?
>
>Steve
>
>
Have you tried changing (increasing) the block size for the
external file?

> 

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