On 2013-01-26 04:52, Rajeev Prasad wrote:

i have a lot of data coming/pouring in [...]
I want to stop writing after certain size is written (say 1gb).
[...] I am worried I am doing too many stat  [...]

For a close approximation, you can just sum the length of the input data.

  $written += length($line);

--
Ruud


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