On Thursday 31 March 2011 16:24:46 Josh Fisher wrote:
> On 3/30/2011 5:05 PM, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Thank you for your feature request.  Unfortunately, I have no idea how to
> > implement it, so unless you can provide some new insight, it will not
> > help adding it to the projects file.
>
> This can be done with a "software transactional memory" (STM) approach,
> and has been described for red-black tree traversal. If interested, see
> the Herlihy and Koskenin paper at
> ftp://ftp.cs.brown.edu/pub/techreports/07/cs07-08.pdf

This is an interesting paper, and the technique seems promising, but given 
that it references Java and more in particular a library that I am not 
familiar with, it is not easy for my simple brain to figure out how it could 
be useful in Bacula.

Thanks,

Kern

>
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Kern
> >
> > On Wednesday 30 March 2011 15:23:31 peterfl...@users.sourceforge.net 
wrote:
> >> Item n:   Add multi-threading to batch console
> >>    Origin: Peter Flass<peter_fl...@yahoo.com>
> >>    Date:   30 Mar 2011
> >>    Status:
> >>
> >>    What:   When doing a restore building the directory tree
> >> takes an inordinate amount of time.  Multi core systems are
> >> common and could benefit from this.  On my dual-core 2.93GHz
> >> system looking at a full backup takes more than an hour
> >> (haven't actually timed it).  System monitor shows one CPU
> >> 100% loaded and the other less than 5%.
> >>
> >>    Why:    This would speed up restores at lot, especially
> >> important for critical files.
> >>
> >>    Notes:
> >
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