Labview Read INI File Slow

Dear ALL:
I have a VI use OpenG Read INI Cluster subvi to read a complex cluster data structure called step config data,and when I Run this VI,It sometimes read INI File quickly,and sometimes read INI File very slowly.If I want to speed up the read INI File speed,I must quit labview and restart it,and when I quit labview it will reports error just look like Labview Error Message.JPG
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I've got the same problem - it takes from 4 to 20 SECONDS to write and read 2 ini file clusters.
The first cluster I write have a few text strings, an error cluster and some numbers.
The second is an array of clusters (I loop through the array and writes each cluster separately.) containing some text and numbers, most of it contained in sub-clusters.
With 0 or 1 element in the array it takes around 4 secs to write and read this to ini file. With 20 in the cluster this takes 20 seconds (on a cFP-2120).
The openG functionality here is quite nice, but if I can't fix this time problem I'm afraid its quite useless!
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