I just checked the use of the multicore compression program "gzip" on one file-daemon side. It did use 32 cores out of 48 possible.
I think even for LTO tape drives the use of a multicore compression tool could be a win on time and storage space. Output of top while pigz was running: > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > 35961 root 20 0 2399932 25088 664 S 2767 0.0 4:53.11 pigz -9 > -p 32 -- Ralf Brinkmann ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Developer Access Program for Intel Xeon Phi Processors Access to Intel Xeon Phi processor-based developer platforms. With one year of Intel Parallel Studio XE. Training and support from Colfax. Order your platform today. http://sdm.link/xeonphi _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users