<html><head></head><body>Problem with pigz is that it bails out on missing symbolic links. Eg. follow symlinks is on and cannot be disabled.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On July 10, 2015 6:51:21 AM CEST, Alexandre DERUMIER <aderumier@odiso.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">Hi,<br /><br />user from pve-user mailing report than using pigz (multithread gzip),<br />improve a lot speed of compression backup.<br /><br />Maybe could we use add it ? (or maybe replace gzip ?)<br /><br /><br />----- Mail original -----<br />De: "Chidester, Bryce" <Bryce.Chidester@calyptix.com><br />À: "proxmoxve" <pve-user@pve.proxmox.com><br />Envoyé: Jeudi 9 Juillet 2015 20:30:30<br />Objet: Re: [PVE-User] slow backup<br /><br />While this doesn't directly address the issue you're experiencing, it <br />may help slightly. <br />In my Proxmox deployments, I've replaced /bin/gzip with pigz ( <br /><a href="http://zlib.net/pigz">http://zlib.net/pigz</a>/ apt-get install pigz ; ln -sfb /usr/bin/pigz <br />/bin/gzip). pigz is a multi-threaded gzip, and it significantly <br />decreased our backup times by speeding up the compression. We saw <br />backup times drop to just 10-50% of what they took running gzip. These <br />big, beefy virtualisation
servers have all these CPUs+cores, so why <br />limit gzip to just one? <br /></pre></blockquote></div><br>
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