> Dan Anderson wrote: > > > > > Very true. But you also need to look at what you're doing. > A spider > > that indexes or coallates pages across several sites might need to > > slurp up a large number of pages -- which even at a few kilobytes a > > piece would be costly on system resources. > > > > Ironically this is the one time I could see slurping as not > working too. > Has anyone hit the limit for open file descriptors? I know > it is OS > dependent and pretty damn high, but on a nice enough system with nice > enough app I suspect you could hit it. At that point you > would have to > slurp or close a filehandle... > > Dan always comes up with the good discussion topics ;-)...
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