HDF5 chunk profiling

Hello,

When testing different chunk size for dataset compression, I obtain the
following results for the writing of a dataset of size 384 x 256 x 1024:

Chunk size Global max memory File size (MB) Write time
(seconds)
2 ^ 15 22% 15
24
2 ^ 12 35% 16
22
2 ^ 10 58% 26
22

Tests realized on Intel Xeon CPU E5530 @ 2.40GHz 4 cores, 4G RAM, Linux SLED
11, HDF5 1.8.3. I'm using the Nexus library that is a thin layer on top of
HDF.

The memory footprint is increasing when the chunk size is decreasing. That
is not an intuitive behaviour. Has somebody an explanation?

Yannick

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