I do remember it. I thought we had checked it in and so I figured
that couldn't *still* be the problem.  Oh well.

-J

Derek Gaston writes:
 > Hehe...
 > 
 > John... do you remember that you and I already did this once back when
 > I was working on my thesis?  I was seeing the same problem of writing
 > from every node... and we dug down there and put a bunch of those
 > statements in.  I guess it never actually got checked in though....
 > and I'm not even sure I still have that code around.
 > 
 > This is why I'm not committing my stuff a lot more often... don't want
 > to lose it.
 > 
 > Derek
 > 
 > On Nov 26, 2007 11:15 AM, John Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 > > OK, so it's not an n^2 algorithm, but XdrIO::write() currently gets
 > > called on all CPUs, and so all of them try to write to the same file
 > > at the same time.  Turns out this is a lot more noticeable on 128 CPUs
 > > than it is on 4...
 > >
 > > The fix should be to wrap the call to write in if (processor_id==0)
 > > as is done for GMVIO.  I'll try to check this fix in today.
 > >
 > > -John
 > >
 > >
 > > John Peterson writes:
 > >  > Benjamin Kirk writes:
 > >  >  > > I haven't had a chance to look into this closely yet, but I just 
 > > wanted to
 > >  >  > > post something here so I would remember to.  In writing out some 
 > > relatively
 > >  >  > > large (36x36x36 Hex27's) meshes recently, mesh.write() apparently 
 > > took 1268
 > >  >  > > seconds!!
 > >  >  >
 > >  >  > I'm guessing it was an xdr file??  I've never seen anything that 
 > > slow, but
 > >  >  > certainly it is worth looking in to.  I'm guessing writing a cube 
 > > should be
 > >  >  > able to reproduce the problem?
 > >  >
 > >  > I can't reproduce this error in the CFDLab... writing the same size
 > >  > mesh takes about 4 seconds there.  TACC has been having some troubles
 > >  > with their $WORK filesystem lately, so maybe that was it.  It'd be nice
 > >  > not to have to wait 20 minutes at the end of a run for the mesh to be
 > >  > written, though ;-)
 > >  >
 > >  > -J

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