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Hari Shreedharan commented on FLUME-2309:
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In case there are millions of files, the directory listing itself would take a
lot of time. I don't know if there is anything much we can do in that case.
Also, like you said keeping a sorted buffer is not a good idea when there are
so many files. Do you see another way out?
Unfortunately, we cannot use a directory stream since we still need to support
Java 6.
Please go ahead and work on this.
> Spooling directory should not always consume the oldest file first.
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> Key: FLUME-2309
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-2309
> Project: Flume
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Muhammad Ehsan ul Haque
> Priority: Minor
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> The ReliableSpoolingFileEventReader reads the oldest file in the spooling
> directory first. This is done by listing the directory contents and then
> sorting file list based on timestamp. This may be very slow if there are a
> lot of files (of the order of 100K or more) in the directory.
> However, this is not always needed, there can be simple cases in which the
> order to consume the file is not important.
> There should be an option of consuming the files in arbitrary order, allowing
> the files to be consumed quickly without any delay.
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