RE: high file count in application

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Kat wrote:

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> ...just *one* subdirectory built last year has 414 megabytes in 
> 118,306 files,, a bit more than EDS can deal with in ram. 
> Loading that as one EDS file isn't possible...

That's probably more than most of us would ever want [for one process to 
have] in RAM, period.  However, I don't see why EDS couldn't handle this 
much data--by which I mean, it's possible, if not very efficient.  Since 
EDS uses 32-bit pointers, a file can grow to 2Gb (some of that will be 
overhead, of course).  The whole EDS file doesn't get loaded just by 
opening.  That's kinda the point of a database.

Based on your figures, it looks like the files average about 3.6K per 
file.  I'm curious (and I'm sure the original poster is, too), how are 
you using the data, Kat?  What do the files look like?  How do you 
access them?  

Matt Lewis

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