Re: Performance Trap - Opening/Closing Files Inside a Loop

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Re^2: Performance Trap - Opening/Closing Files Inside a Loop by Happy-the-monk (Canon) on Dec 10, 2004 at 15:02 UTC
See runrig's comment. Cheers, Sören	[reply]
Re^2: Performance Trap - Opening/Closing Files Inside a Loop by tachyon (Chancellor) on Dec 11, 2004 at 00:45 UTC
I bet you're going to run out of file handles. I'll bet you I won't :-) `$ ulimit -HSn 8192` [download] A file descriptor is really just an entry in a C array which is maintained by the OS. Although by default the size of that array is typically 512, 1024, .... or some other function of base 2 depending on OS etc you can make it virtually anything you want within reason. See this for some more details. cheers tachyon	[reply] [d/l]