[rescue] Sun 711

[Kurt Mosiejczuk]

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

> > 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.

Those 7200 open files are only your data files though.  No logging, no
output (and I doubt this application is just to be able to do a big
slideshow), nothing.  And even at 7200 files, I believe the standard
user limits of Solaris would need to be adjusted.

--Kurt