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| From | Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: The first 10 files |
| Date | 2013-01-26 17:13 -0700 |
| Organization | hexadecimal loadlifters |
| Message-ID | <ydn7gmz1o0w.fsf@shell.xmission.com> (permalink) |
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Wojtek <nowhere@a.com> writes:
> 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.
You could run a command in a subprocess. On a Unix system
ls -U | head -n 10
should run quickly (-U tells it not to sort). Not sure how to do that
on Windows.
--
Jim Janney
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Re: The first 10 files Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2013-01-26 02:44 -0800
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Re: The first 10 files "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-01-26 06:31 -0500
Re: The first 10 files Wojtek <nowhere@a.com> - 2013-01-26 15:42 -0800
Re: The first 10 files Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2013-01-26 17:13 -0700
Re: The first 10 files Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-01-26 21:21 -0500
Re: The first 10 files "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-01-26 22:05 -0500
Re: The first 10 files Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2013-01-26 08:24 -0400
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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 Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2013-01-26 20:57 -0700
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Re: The first 10 files Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2013-01-27 07:23 -0400
Re: The first 10 files Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-01-27 20:36 -0500
Re: The first 10 files Wojtek <nowhere@a.com> - 2013-01-28 16:28 -0800
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Re: The first 10 files lipska the kat <"nospam at neversurrender dot co dot uk"> - 2013-03-14 12:49 +0000
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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