[gdal-dev] Can GDAL be configured to do direct I/O? (bypass cache, control blocksize, etc)

2012-12-14 Thread Ethan Alpert
I'm running in to a situation where I believe the filesystem cache settings are screwing things up. Based on iozone tests I'm not getting near the throughput I should for large 4gb+ files with multiple writing processes. It is a complex interaction of the number of dirty pages in filesystem cache

Re: [gdal-dev] Can GDAL be configured to do direct I/O? (bypass cache, control blocksize, etc)

2012-12-14 Thread Ivan Lucena
Interesting: http://www.centos.org/docs/4/html/rh-gfs-en-6.1/s1-manage-direct-io.html ---Original Message--- From: Ethan Alpert ealp...@digitalglobe.com To: gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org Subject: [gdal-dev] Can GDAL be configured to do direct I/O? (bypass cache, control blocksize

Re: [gdal-dev] Can GDAL be configured to do direct I/O? (bypass cache, control blocksize, etc)

2012-12-14 Thread Even Rouault
Selon Ethan Alpert ealp...@digitalglobe.com: I'm running in to a situation where I believe the filesystem cache settings are screwing things up. Based on iozone tests I'm not getting near the throughput I should for large 4gb+ files with multiple writing processes. It is a complex interaction