[rescue] Sun 711

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 02:21:51PM -0400, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:
> 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.

Hmm, that would get out of control.  Although I don't see what the problem
with 7200 files open is, but I can see 12-24 times that being a problem.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd