Re: CPU eating tar process

Hi Kees,

maybe you can try to split up the files into several DLEs and put them 
into different spindles. That should fire off multiple instances of tar 
in parallel, if I understood Amanda's concept of spindles correctly.

Hope it helps,
Jens


On 21.09.2021 15:55, Kees Meijs | Nefos wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> We've got some backup targets with lots (and lots, and then some) of 
> files. There's so much of them that making back-ups is becoming a problem.
> 
> During the backup process, tar(1) is eating up a CPU core. There's no or 
> hardly no I/O wait to be seen. Very likely tar is single threaded so 
> there's that. The additional gzip(1) process is doing zero to nothing.
> 
> Any thoughts on speeding this up? Maybe an alternative for GNU tar, or...?
> 
> Thanks all!
> 
> Cheers,
> Kees
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