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>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Conlen <meconlen@obfuscated.net> writes:

Michael> I don't know why it just hit me, but turn off atime updates
Michael> on the filesystem your reading from. This won't likely solve
Michael> the problem, but it should help reduce your per file time.

The read side of the equasion is not likely to be the bottleneck.
This doesn't do any harm, but I don't think it will do much good.

Dave.

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