Write File From Cache Really Slow?

[Dave Cragg]

On 8 Feb 2006, at 08:47, Ken Ray wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm downloading files via HTTP with 'load URL' and then I'm writing  
> them to
> disk with "put url... into binfile". Everything works fine, but it  
> takes a
> really long time to write the data to disk. For example, if I  
> download a
> 12MB file into the cache, it takes well over a minute to write it  
> to disk.

That's slow, and sounds suspiciously like the url is being downloaded  
a second time. Could you use libUrlSetLogField to see if that might  
be happening?


>
> So two questions: (1) is there any other way I can get a 'loaded'  
> file to
> disk other than the way I'm doing it, and (2) if not, is there  
> anything I
> can do to speed it up?


You could use libUrlDownloadToFile to download directly to a file.  
Contrary to what the docs might imply, it can be used with http urls.

Cheers
Dave