How many files can I open under FreeBSD, at the same time?
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I tried to open 1000 temporary files and I could do so within one second.
Another interesting (offtopic) question is that I could not open 10 000
files under Windows XP. Error was too many open file. How to overcome
this?
The
How many files can I open under FreeBSD, at the same time?
Problem: I'm making a pivot table, and when I drill down the facts, I
would like to create a new temporary file for each possible dimension
value. In most cases, there will be less than 1000 dimension values. I
tried to open 1000
In response to Laszlo Nagy [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
How many files can I open under FreeBSD, at the same time?
Problem: I'm making a pivot table, and when I drill down the facts, I
would like to create a new temporary file for each possible dimension
value. In most cases, there will be less
Directories generally start to perform poorly when you put too many files
in them (i.e. the time required to add a new directory entry or find
an existing name in the entry goes up)
If you're going to be making 10s of 1000s of files, I'd recommend making
a tree of directories. I.e., make
On Behalf Of Laszlo Nagy
Another interesting (offtopic) question is that I could not open 10
000
files under Windows XP. Error was too many open file. How to
overcome
this?
There are various limits on the numbers of handles of different types
available in MS-Windows. Some can be adjusted by
Laszlo Nagy wrote:
In fact I do not need any name associated with the file. I just need a
temporary file object, I would like to access it in read write mode and
then throw it.
In that case, why do you use physical (i.e. on-disk) files
at all? You could simply use memory objects. If you
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 04:12:39PM +0200, Laszlo Nagy wrote:
How many files can I open under FreeBSD, at the same time?
% sysctl -a | grep maxfiles
kern.maxfiles: 7880
kern.maxfilesperproc: 7092
But remember that you're already using a few hundred file descriptors,
so usually, you won't have
