Comment by teddyh
5 years ago
> So, the filesystem's performance to allocate new disk blocks seems to limit the performance of my linker.
If you know the total size ahead of time, you might try using fallocate(2).
5 years ago
> So, the filesystem's performance to allocate new disk blocks seems to limit the performance of my linker.
If you know the total size ahead of time, you might try using fallocate(2).
I actually tried fallocate(2) but it didn't change the performance characteristics at all. It doesn't seem to do what its man page says.
I wonder if that's filesystem/OS dependent.