Re: [Bacula-devel] Feature request

[Josh F. <jf...@pv...>]

On 3/30/2011 5:05 PM, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Thank you for your feature request.  Unfortunately, I have no idea how to
> implement it, so unless you can provide some new insight, it will not help
> adding it to the projects file.

This can be done with a "software transactional memory" (STM) approach, 
and has been described for red-black tree traversal. If interested, see 
the Herlihy and Koskenin paper at 
ftp://ftp.cs.brown.edu/pub/techreports/07/cs07-08.pdf

> Best regards,
>
> Kern
>
> On Wednesday 30 March 2011 15:23:31 pet...@us... wrote:
>> Item n:   Add multi-threading to batch console
>>    Origin: Peter Flass<Peter_Flass@Yahoo.com>
>>    Date:   30 Mar 2011
>>    Status:
>>
>>    What:   When doing a restore building the directory tree
>> takes an inordinate amount of time.  Multi core systems are
>> common and could benefit from this.  On my dual-core 2.93GHz
>> system looking at a full backup takes more than an hour
>> (haven't actually timed it).  System monitor shows one CPU
>> 100% loaded and the other less than 5%.
>>
>>    Why:    This would speed up restores at lot, especially
>> important for critical files.
>>
>>    Notes:
>>
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