Timed Loop timing source - Control Loop From Task is too slow

I'm trying to make a Timed Loop run at a period of 2 ms, with an analog input task running at 50 kHz as timing source. The input analog signal is scaled and fed into a synchronised analog output task on the same multifunction DAQ board. Using the built-in 1 kHz or 1 MHz clock as timing source for the Timed Loop works great, except for a slight time lag between the loop and my AI/AO tasks which over time becomes unacceptable because my task will be running for up to an hour. However, when I use the DAQmx Create Timing Source: Control Loop From Task vi to create a timing source, everything slows down and the fastest loop time I can get is around 20 ms. Any suggestions to get around this would be highly appreciated!
System: LabVIEW RT 8.0 with DAQmx 8.0 running on an NI PXI-8186; NI PXI-6251 used for analog input.

You're welcome!
You can build an array, and if your data is not hugh (100's of MB) this may be the easiest solution. However, we aways suggest implementing the Producer/Consumer Architecture. Keep the PID in the Producer loop, but move the File IO to the Consumer. Also, it appears that your instrument uses some form of serial communication, so that could cause lags in your system....
What is your application about in general, what performance are you hoping for, etc?
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