Question about filesystem behaviour

From: Franc Carter <franc_at_mml.usyd.edu.au>
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 08:43:39 +1000

We have an application that needs to write a very large number
of open files (> 4096) and have found a substantial performance
difference between open/write/close for each file and only closing
the least commonly used files when the number of open files hits
a maximum.

I have been asked to 'fix' this, my hunch is that there is no fix as
the open/write/close is just a slower way of doing things. Can
someone provide me with an explanation of the mechanisms of the
behaviour so that I can either justify the situation or fix it.

thanks

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Franc Carter                            MEMLab, University of Sydney
Ph: 61-2-9351-7819                      Fax: 9351-6461
Received on Thu Apr 15 1999 - 22:58:20 NZST

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