Hi Christopher,

Since you do not keep any state in your actors and you are not running them 
on different nodes, actors may not be the best plan here. You could just 
run your file copying code on multiple futures.

I also found quite an old discussion regarding akka and file operations 
here<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/akka-user/GDX4bv6q6-w>. 
Maybe it will give you some ideas.

On Wednesday, April 9, 2014 5:00:37 AM UTC+2, Christopher Helck wrote:
>
> I am new to Akka and am converting an existing program to use it. The 
> program reads a set of files, processes the data, and writes reports to 20 
> files. The data is read and processed sequentially. It seems like a good 
> project to start with. 
>
> I plan to offload the writing of the files to 20 Actors (they just write 
> incoming messages to their file -- they block) and my question is is this a 
> good plan? The mapping of threads to actors is not one to one, thus all of 
> these blocking actors may make my performance worse. 
>
> Suggestions? 
>
> Christopher Helck


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