File creation on Windows slows the machine 2

[MoshiachNow]

Hi,

Running 100MB file cretaion on Windows causes my PC almost to halt:

open(FILE,">$FILE1");
print FILE ' ' x (100 * (1024 * 1024));
close FILE;

Is there any way to ease on the PC when creating such a file ?

Thanks

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[cdlvj]

Could run it as a seperate process, with a low priority.
see Win32:rocess.

 

[MoshiachNow]

Thanks,will check.

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[PaulTEG]

You're creating a 100MB block to write to file, that's gonna hammer your RAM

you could try writing smaller blocks

open FH, ">myfile.x";
for ($loop=1;$loop <= 1024;$loop++) {
  print FH " " x 1024;
}
close FH;

seems to work fine for me ;-)
HTH

Paul
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