Improving SQR process "system calls" on UNIX while generating PDF files.

[Thaî Le Tat <thai.le-tat@CREDITLYONNAIS.FR>]

Environment (IBM Sequent / NUMAQ):
      SQR Server/6.1.3/Sequent/DYNIX/ptx V4.4.6/Oracle 8.0.6/Oct 05 2000

I use SQR to produce 140000 PDF files.
My datas are readed from flat files, with no database I/O in my main loop.

I run "truss" to trace the system calls made by my sqr process, and get the 
following :

[...]
- 1 call to open(<spf_file>)  with file_descriptor (fd) 9 ,
- 170  calls to write() on fd 9, size 256 bytes,
- 250 to 256 calls to read() on fd 9 to get 1 byte,
- 1 write() on fd 9, size 255
- 7 open/read/close on file sqr.ini
- 1 small loop to convert the SPF file to a PDF file,
- 1 unlink on the SPF file.
[...]

This is repeated 140000 times.

My questions :
1/ how can I bypass the reload of my "sqr.ini" ?
2/ can I increase the size of the write-buffer (on spf) with a value larger 
than 256 ?
3/ why does the sqr process perform 250 read to get 250 bytes from my spf ?

Any and all help would be appreciated.
Thanks.

Thai LE TAT
thai.le-tat@creditlyonnais.fr




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