Re: CPU eating tar process

Kees Meijs | Nefos <[email protected]>
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Hi,

Thanks as well!

The source is spinning rust with SSD cache. The target is RAID-Z2 ZFS on 
spinning rust.

And yes: way too much tiny files.

To be continued...

K.

On 21-09-2021 17:53, C. Chan wrote:
> Is the file storage media hard disk, and are the files mostly
> small and IOPS/latency bound?  If so, you may have to live with sloooow
> backups.  We eventually added NVMe SSDs to our ZFS array as special 
> devices
> and sent files smaller than 128KB to NVMe, which along with the metadata,
> helped speed up backups quite a bit.
>
> It may be worth trying star instead of tar, but I think it too is single
> threaded.  There's something called tarsplitter on github which is
> multi-threaded if you don't mind experimenting:
>
> https://github.com/AQUAOSOTech/tarsplitter
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