----- Le 2 Oct 19, à 18:51, p2k-...@roosoft.ltd.uk a écrit : > On 02/10/2019 15:46, Daniel Berteaud wrote: >> ----- Le 1 Oct 19, à 10:51, p2k-...@roosoft.ltd.uk a écrit : >> >>> Hmmm I am not so sure about that.. because it appears the time it takes >>> compress files also slows down the transfer of them. I was getting like >>> 6Mb/s from a server on the same switch as the backup machine. One CPU >>> out of 16 was pegged at a 100% under compression. >> How do you know compression is the bottleneck ? > > > I happened to be watching htop at the time. I was suprrised to see only > one core pegged at 100%
That doesn't mean this process is busy only doing compression (it might, but it could be doing something else) > >>> Surely it would be >>> trivial to replace gzip with pigz and bzip2 with pbzip2? >> BackupPC does not use an external binary to compress data so no, it wouldn't >> be >> as trivial as s/gzip/pigz/ >> > > Oh? Then why is there a config variable for the gzip path ? What is it > used for it not compression? > > Curious. It's for compression of archives, not pooled files ++ -- [ https://www.firewall-services.com/ ] Daniel Berteaud FIREWALL-SERVICES SAS, La sécurité des réseaux Société de Services en Logiciels Libres Tél : +33.5 56 64 15 32 Matrix: @dani:fws.fr [ https://www.firewall-services.com/ | https://www.firewall-services.com ] _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
