[rescue] Sun 711

[Kurt Mosiejczuk]

On Thu, 2 May 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> How bad is the over head if you open all the files at once?  Then are the
> system calls going to add anymore overhead than having 1 file?

Riiiight.  Let's look at how many files for a 5 minute clip.

24 frames per second * 60 seconds per minute * 5 minutes = 7200 files

You're going to open 7200 files all at the beginning.  And that's assuming
you are doing a tiny 5 minute clip.


--Kurt