On Wednesday 03 March 2010 16:47:20 Mark Miller wrote: > Hello Thorben, > > So, I am not sure I completely understood the part of this thread > dealing with /dev/shm. However, did you in fact try using HDF5-1.8.4 and > reading the file with the CORE vfd (H5Pset_fapl_core)
I'm sorry, obviously I'm not deep into HDF5 yet or maybe I would have known that function, but I didn't. I now read up on it (for reference: http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/UG/08_TheFile.html ) and I will try this out now... > and setting your > allocation inc to say 32*(1<<32) (thats 32 gig and just a little bigger > than your file) What's an allocation inc? > and then opening the file with that fapl? I'd expect > that to have helped a lot. I hope you're right; it will probably take me at least till tomorrow to get a result, but will report back Cheers, Thorben _______________________________________________ Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. [email protected] http://mail.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_hdfgroup.org
