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


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