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From:   "Daniel M. Weeks" <[email protected]>
To:     xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]>,
Date:   01/28/2014 04:17 PM
Subject:        Re: [xcat-user] Support parallel bzip/gzip implementations?



On 01/28/2014 12:16 AM, Christopher Samuel wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> One thing that we notice with stateless nodes and software kits is
> that it can take quite a while to compress with bzip2.
>
> However, for RHEL EPEL there are two parallel bzip2 implementations
> (pbzip2 and lbzip2) and a parallel gzip implementation (pigz).
>
> It might be nice to offer sites a way to tell xCAT to use those rather
> than the standard single threaded one to speed up these tasks.
>
> What do people think?
>
> All the best!
> Chris

Hi Chris,

Yes, I quite agree. Please see the attached (rough) patch that we use on
our production install. It could easily be adapted to other
implementations.

Best regards,
Dan Weeks

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Daniel M. Weeks
Systems Programmer
Center for Computational Innovations
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY 12180
518-276-4458
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