[rescue] Sun 711

[Shawn Wallbridge]

Actually that is exactly what it is going to be. Film playback. Just high
res.

shawn

-----Original Message-----
From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
Behalf Of Kurt Mosiejczuk
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 4:32 PM
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [rescue] Sun 711


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