#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; $|++; use Fcntl qw(:DEFAULT O_ASYNC O_DIRECT); my $FH; sysopen($FH, "./test.dat", O_WRONLY | O_TRUNC | O_CREAT | O_ASYNC | O_DIRECT, 0666); my $BUFFER = "0"x1048576; my $BUFSIZE = 1048576; for (my $i = 0; $i < 20480; $i++) { my $written = syswrite($FH, $BUFFER, $BUFSIZE); die "System write error: $!\n" unless defined $written; }