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From: kahlers@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: FORTRAN WRITE hogs network
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Date: 26 Oct 90 17:28:00 GMT
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Nf-From: ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!kahlers    Oct 26 12:28:00 1990


> In FORTRAN, to write a file you OPEN it and then WRITE to the unit.
> Somehow, this generates an inordinate amount of network traffic!

There is a patch (for SR10.2, I think) which corrects a bad performance
problem with the Fortran write library routines.  It is a new ftnlib.
This patch sure helped our Fortran write performance problems.  Do you
have this patch installed?

-Kem
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