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replace xz with different compression tool to compress database dumps (xz is single-threaded, takes too long) - evaluate parallel compression

Added by Christian Lohmaier over 8 years ago. Updated over 8 years ago.

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creating database dumps takes way too long with xz, better switch to different compression, or even to a tool that can use multiple cores..

Actions #1

Updated by Jan Iversen over 8 years ago

We could use lbzip2 or pbzip2, they both use the number of cores available (or take a parameter to limit.

In order not to change the output files we could do:
tar cf - paths-to-archive | lbzip2 -9 -j 32 > archive.tar.gz

If the scripts are in SALT, I will be happy to change and test it.

Just saw "tar" has an option to do that
tar -c --use-compress-program=pigz -f tar.file dir_to_xz

Actions #2

Updated by Christian Lohmaier over 8 years ago

  • Subject changed from replace xz with different compression tool to compress database dumps (xz is single-threaded, takes too long) to replace xz with different compression tool to compress database dumps (xz is single-threaded, takes too long) - evaluate parallel compression
  • Priority changed from Normal to Low
  • % Done changed from 0 to 80

changed to use plain gzip in salt - leaving with low prio to maybe test out the parallel compression variants at a later time

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