Compact logging Data

[Hojo]

Hello All

I have an application that logs pressure data for later graphing and manipulating. All this is working fine but i have one question.

At present i have the logged data writing to a text file, which when logging 8 channels upto 10,000 times a second the log file gets quite large if you log for a while.

Is there another file type you would suggest for easy writing and reading but reducing the file size and therefore reading/writing time? as at the high speeds a 200 MB file is not unheard of.

Thanks for any thoughts.

Hojo

[dglienna]

If you even have it working at that speed, I don't think I'd try to compress it. It won't be as fast. What you might be able to do is to find a method to compress it after the file is written. Maybe you could create another file every so often? Like one or two minutes?

[Devion]

Can you show what kind of data is being logged? (just a few lines not the whole 200MB )