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Hi Antonio, I would say try h5repack but I just tried that (below) and it also creates files that cannot be read by ncwa. I have not tested chunking using the Java library. It's certainly worth a try. czzender@roulee:~$ time ncks -O -4 --cnk_dmn latitude,4 --cnk_dmn longitude,4 --cnk_dmn time,512 ~/2014.nc ~/2014_ch_ncks.nc
real 2m22.212s user 0m39.139s sys 1m38.901szender@roulee:~$ time nccopy -c time/512,latitude/4,longitude/4 ~/2014.nc ~/2014_ch_nccopy.nc
real 2m21.440s user 0m38.865s sys 1m37.674szender@roulee:~$ time h5repack -l u10m:CHUNK=512x4x4 -i ~/2014.nc4 -o ~/2014_ch_h5repack.nc
real 0m2.683s user 0m0.423s sys 0m0.442s zender@roulee:~$ ncwa -O ~/2014_ch_ncks.nc ~/foo.nc Segmentation fault zender@roulee:~$ ncwa -O ~/2014_ch_nccopy.nc ~/foo.nc*** Error in `ncwa': double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x0000000001f22b70Segmentation fault
zender@roulee:~$ ncwa -O ~/2014_ch_h5repack.nc ~/foo.nc Segmentation fault -- Charlie Zender, Earth System Sci. & Computer Sci. University of California, Irvine 949-891-2429 )'(
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