Re: fast copying of large files in python

2011-11-02 Thread Dave Angel
On 11/02/2011 03:31 PM, Catherine Moroney wrote: Hello, I'm working on an application that as part of its processing, needs to copy 50 Meg binary files from one NFS mounted disk to another. The simple-minded approach of shutil.copyfile is very slow, and I'm guessing that this is due to the d

fast copying of large files in python

2011-11-02 Thread Catherine Moroney
Hello, I'm working on an application that as part of its processing, needs to copy 50 Meg binary files from one NFS mounted disk to another. The simple-minded approach of shutil.copyfile is very slow, and I'm guessing that this is due to the default 16K buffer size. Using shtil.copyfileobj