Hi Seth, On 08/22/17 18:35, Seth P. Garrepy wrote: > I am getting started with Tarsnap and had a general question about the > development roadmap. I am liking Tarsnap so far, and I’m glad I found you > all. I searched through the listserv archives, and didn’t see any reference > to multithreading support. Are there any plans to parallelize tarsnap to > improve performance on systems with lower clock rates but several logical > cores? On my Haswell i3 FreeNAS box, it feels like tarsnap is stuck in 2nd > gear!
I've considered taking steps to use multiple CPUs, but it has never seemed that CPU power was likely to be much of a bottleneck compared to disk I/O and networking. Can you provide some more details about your usage pattern? e.g., what sort of data are you archiving and how much of it changes between archives? -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid