Re: Do you use this library

2011-08-25 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, August 25, 2011 07:20:20 PM Charles Curley did opine: > On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:45:38 -0400 > > gene heskett wrote: > > That could be handy if it is easily configured to be used, which I > > have not investigated. > > http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Use_pigz_to_speed_up_comp

Re: Do you use this library

2011-08-25 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:45:38 -0400 gene heskett wrote: > Making amanda use its parallelism might be a challenging > project however. Actually, not challenging at all. According to the man page, http://www.zlib.net/pigz/pigz.pdf: Pigz compresses using threads to make use of multiple processor

Re: Do you use this library

2011-08-25 Thread Brian Cuttler
All we did at my site was to essentially replace the gzip binary. Its wrong and its cheating, but that is what we did. On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 02:21:13PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:45:38 -0400 > gene heskett wrote: > > > That could be handy if it is easily configur

Re: Do you use this library

2011-08-25 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:45:38 -0400 gene heskett wrote: > That could be handy if it is easily configured to be used, which I > have not investigated. http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Use_pigz_to_speed_up_compression > Making amanda use its parallelism might be a > challenging project howe

Re: Do you use this library

2011-08-25 Thread Brian Cuttler
> offs. ;-) > > > Robert > > > > > -Original Message- > > > From: owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org > > > [mailto:owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org] On Behalf Of gene heskett > > > Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 10:43 AM > > > To:

Re: Do you use this library

2011-08-25 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, August 25, 2011 09:17:04 AM Brian Cuttler did opine: > As long as we are talking about HW vs SW compression, I should > say that we've installed pigz, a parallelized version of gzip, > on some of our systems with good result. If you have a system > that will support it and SW compress

Re: Do you use this library

2011-08-24 Thread gene heskett
Behalf Of gene heskett > > Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 10:43 AM > > To: amanda-users@amanda.org > > Subject: Re: Do you use this library > > > > On Wednesday, August 24, 2011 10:17:33 AM McGraw, Robert P did opine: > > > JF, > > > > > >

Re: Do you use this library

2011-08-24 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
ner-amanda-us...@amanda.org] > > On Behalf Of gene heskett > > Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 10:43 AM > > To: amanda-users@amanda.org > > Subject: Re: Do you use this library > > > > > > On Wednesday, August 24, 2011 10:17:33 AM McGraw, Robert P di

RE: Do you use this library

2011-08-24 Thread McGraw, Robert P
ugust 24, 2011 10:43 AM > To: amanda-users@amanda.org > Subject: Re: Do you use this library > > > On Wednesday, August 24, 2011 10:17:33 AM McGraw, Robert P did opine: > > > JF, > > > > > > Recently you sent me your tapetype for an lto4 drive. I have a questio

Re: Do you use this library

2011-08-24 Thread gene heskett
On Wednesday, August 24, 2011 10:17:33 AM McGraw, Robert P did opine: > JF, > > > Recently you sent me your tapetype for an lto4 drive. I have a question > about the length parameter. > > An lto-4 tape has a non-compress length of ~800GB and in compress about > double. I know these are max valu

RE: Do you use this library

2011-08-23 Thread McGraw, Robert P
compress mode so should the length value be double or ~1.4TB. Thanks Robert > -Original Message- > From: Jean-Francois Malouin [mailto:Jean- > francois.malo...@bic.mni.mcgill.ca] > Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 3:33 PM > To: McGraw, Robert P > Subject: Re: Do yo