[CHUKWA-361] tailers could be more thrifty with filehandles

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Data Collection
• Assignee: Ariel Shemaiah Rabkin
• Reporter: Ariel Shemaiah Rabkin
• Created: 30/Jul/09 22:37
• Updated: 06/Oct/09 19:26

Description

Right now, when a FileTailingAdaptor is watching a file, it keeps it open. This is a scaling bottleneck. Would be nice to have a separate, non-rotation-aware adaptor that doesn't keep the file open when it isn't actively reading data.