Closing Recorder File

structural10 · Post by **structural10** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 10:27 am

I noticed while sourcing an OpenSees script inside of the program that the results file from the recorders is still being accessed by OpenSees, even after the analysis is complete. I noticed that if I use "wipe" or "wipe analysis" at the end of my scripts that the results file is closed at the end of the analysis and all of the results are written to the file. Is this a bug in the program? Should I be using "wipe" at the end of the script or is there another syntax? Thanks.

Andy Hardyniec

Post by **fmk** » Wed Jun 23, 2010 12:21 am

It is not a bug .. Opening and closing files takes a lot of CPU time .. The wipe is not needed as they will be closed when the program terminates, the only exception is if the program crashes.