What is the fastest way to read 10 GB file from the disk?

Question

We need to read and count different types of messages/run some statistics on a 10 GB text file, e.g a FIX engine log. We use Linux, 32-bit, 4 CPUs, Intel, coding in Perl but the

Answer 1

I wish I knew more about the content of your file, but not knowing other than that it is text, this sounds like an excellent MapReduce kind of problem.

PS, the fastest read of any file is a linear read. cat file > /dev/null should be the speed that the file can be read.