are you asking about UNIX commands that can speed up processes? Try  man nice and  man renice

Note that this is not "improving your program's preformance but just a temporary hack to give your program a higher priority.

cheers

SK Update: going back to holli's point. If your code is not extermely complicated to post (length wise) then it would be better to for the monk's to look at it and then suggest some improvements. You mention 2GB file size. Is the program writing back to disk also or is it ready only? If you are writinig a lot of stuff and your system's IO is not that great try writing out compressed file. Also are you trying to read entire file in mem? etc. code will surely help!

In reply to Re: Need to increase the processing speed? by sk
in thread Need to increase the processing speed? by perlsen

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