Fastest way to write huge files

[saswat at gmail.com]

On Aug 28, 5:35 pm, "Mohamed Yousef" <harrr... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello ,
>
> let's say , I'm moving large files through network between devices
> what is the fastest way to do this ?
> what i came up with :-
>
> 1) using regular file operations with an in memory limit of 4MB which
> when filled written to disk and re-filled again
>
> 2) using memory mapped files in the following way , map first 20MB of
> file and after finishing them flush and map next 20MB
> ------
> which of them should be faster in writting to disk ? and less memory consuming
>
> or is there faster ways ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Regards ,
> Mohamed Yousef

In the send side :

You may want to use sendfile and here is python package for same
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/py-sendfile/1.2.3

In the receive side :

You may want to use splice (Linux 2.6.17 onwards) - Just read from a
network fd and write to a file fd

I just assumed you are using Linux.:-)

Thanks
-Saswat