<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Frank Warmerdam <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:warmerdam@pobox.com">warmerdam@pobox.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">Livneh Yehiyam wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
I agree that the amount is small per file, but in our application we need to keep thousands of files open, and keep memory consumption to a certain limit.<br>
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Ah, I'm starting to grasp your issue. I will humbly suggest that the idea<br>
of keeping thousands of files open at the same time may be unwise. If it<br>
really is critical you might need a lighter weight approach than GDAL<br>
or libtiff.<br></blockquote><div><br>Livneh--<br><br>Perhaps you could describe the problem that you're trying to tackle and we could see if there is an alternative way to solve it without having thousands of files open at a time. Without knowing exactly what your problem is, it seems like using a GDAL VRT (<a href="http://www.gdal.org/gdal_vrttut.html">http://www.gdal.org/gdal_vrttut.html</a>) file might be one approach to consider in lieu of having thousands of files open.<br>
<br>--Matt<br></div></div>