Re: [elephant-devel] Too many files open

2006-03-06 Thread Ian Eslick
Another note on lots of databases. with-open-store is a pretty expensive operation, so unless you are only opening them infrequently and for batch operation, a fine-grained use of with-open-store is likely to cost you a great deal of performance. Ian Robert L. Read wrote: > Dear Kevin, > I

Re: [elephant-devel] Too many files open

2006-03-06 Thread Robert L. Read
Dear Kevin,     I would not go so far as to see it is outside what you should expect of Elephant, but certainly if I had to store thousands of datapoints in conceptual groups numbering in the hundreds my first instinct would be to place them all in one database, and put them in different btre