Thanks for your answer Bruno.
To start with your last question, if I am not wrong, the (very variable)
figures I gave are the speed of despooling only from memory one job to the
tape drive. It is happening for all my backups (at the beginning of the
tape and at the end - so tape position
A few remarks:
- You shouldn't forget tmpfs is fundamentally a (virtual) memory-based file
system; its contents live in memory only, but since they’re swappable the
kernel can store them in swap instead of physical memory if necessary. So
what precaution you're using to ensure, there's no swap