On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 04:35 -0500, Sascha Weng wrote:
> The programm reads inputrecords and writes them in a database (DB2)
> and in different outputfiles [...] I expected the cpu time would be
> nearly the same. But there is this difference I can not explain.

A month or two ago we enabled compression for a handful of big
sequential datasets.  This significantly increased CPU consumption for
readers, yet reduced the actual run time by half.  Perhaps your storage
admin gremlins have done something similar?

-- 
David Andrews
A. Duda and Sons, Inc.
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