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| From | "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: The first 10 files |
| Date | 2013-01-26 22:05 -0500 |
| Organization | The Wasteland |
| Message-ID | <nospam-7FC141.22053226012013@news.aioe.org> (permalink) |
| References | <mn.d04a7dd156c148ef.70216@a.com> <nospam-E6AD85.06312326012013@news.aioe.org> <mn.d3ae7dd1c4b8d7a3.70216@a.com> |
In article <mn.d3ae7dd1c4b8d7a3.70216@a.com>, Wojtek <nowhere@a.com>
wrote:
> John B. Matthews wrote :
> > Although it may be beyond your control, you should also critically
> > assess a design having tens of thousands of files in a single
> > directory.
>
> Well of course.
>
> The directory holds files which are uploaded by external events. If
> there are a lot of events between application runs, then the number
> of files can indeed reach large numbers.
>
> Since this is happening on a server, and you cam potentially have
> many hundreds of people accessing at the same time (each with there
> own directory), I was hoping to be able to "stage" file processing.
>
> The:
>
> public boolean accept(File pathname) {
> return maxFiles-- > 0;
> }
>
> in FileFilter is interesting, but the file system nevertheless still
> runs through the entire directory. Maybe FileFilter needs:
>
> public boolean abort(File pathname);
>
> Hmm, maybe I need a timed background process to move files to "holding"
> directories which will be limited to a small number of files.
If Java 7 is available, a java.nio.file.WatchService may be helpful in
detecting (subsequent) changes while running.
<http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/io/notification.html>
--
John B. Matthews
trashgod at gmail dot com
<http://sites.google.com/site/drjohnbmatthews>
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Re: The first 10 files "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-01-26 22:05 -0500
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Re: The first 10 files Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2013-01-26 20:51 -0700
Re: The first 10 files Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2013-01-26 20:47 -0700
Re: The first 10 files Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2013-01-26 22:02 -0400
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Re: The first 10 files Wojtek <nowhere@a.com> - 2013-01-26 21:20 -0800
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Re: The first 10 files Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2013-03-15 11:38 +0100
Re: The first 10 files Wojtek <nowhere@a.com> - 2013-03-15 10:31 -0700
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