[pve-devel] backup : add pigz compressor

Dmitry Petuhov mityapetuhov at gmail.com
Sat Jul 11 09:49:17 CEST 2015


Maybe run pigz with nice, always with maximum number of cores? So it will always run at max speed while not bothering main processes.

11.07.2015 10:25, Cesar Peschiera пишет:
>> Yes, that makes sense to me.
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> Or maybe the PVE GUI also can has a third option for use pgzip, and the user also can select the amount of cores to used, so in this case, also maybe will be better add a message of caution that say "the use of many cores can slowing down his VMs". At least for me, it would be fantastic.
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>>> You could even make it so using pigz requires a setting in
>>> vzdump.conf. So in GUI you still can only select gzip or lzop.
>>> If set to gzip and vzdump.conf has pigz:on then pigz is used instead of gzip.
>>> Most novice users are only going to use the GUI, this would reduce the
>>> likelyhood of them turning on pigz and then complaiing about their
>>> decision.
>>
>> Yes, that makes sense to me. Someone want to write a patch?
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