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Re: How can you make idle processors pick up java work?

Date 2012-07-31 22:07 -0700
From Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: How can you make idle processors pick up java work?
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On 7/31/2012 1:07 PM, qwertmonkey wrote:
...
>   Please, let me know if you have a better idea of how to read very large text
> files in a faster way (while using a regular/sub-optimal box) ~
...

It sounds as though your throughput is limited by disk read head time -
splitting across physical disks increases that resource.

You *may* be able to improve the efficiency of one drive by using NIO
non-blocking reads to keep more disk prefetch reads going at once. Given
a pool of reads, the drive can optimize their order to reduce total head
movement, and therefore time the read head wastes not actually doing a
transfer.

Patricia

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How can you make idle processors pick up java work? "qwertmonkey" <qwertmonkey@1:261/38.remove-x1c-this> - 2012-07-31 20:07 +0000
  Re: How can you make idle processors pick up java work? Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-07-31 22:07 -0700
    Re: How can you make idle processors pick up java work? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-08-01 00:07 -0700

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