On 27.09.2014 12:44, stef...@apache.org wrote: > Author: stefan2 > Date: Sat Sep 27 10:44:13 2014 > New Revision: 1627946
> + /* Clear it the ITERPOOL once in a while. Doing it too frequently > + * renders the FILE_HINT ineffective. Doing too infrequently, may > + * leave us with too many open file handles. */ This makes me wonder: there's no substantial difference between clearing the pool (and closing file) every 16 iterations, or doing that on every iteration. So, what's magical about 16, do we actually know how many files we keep open, does the code try to gracefully handle running out of file handles, and if not, does the whole pack operation go south when we do run out? -- Brane
