Re: [Bacula-users] Threaded compression?

[Eric B. <er...@ba...>]

Hello John,

On 4/7/25 08:12, John Lockard wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> For the compression methods I can choose for my filesets, (gzip, lzo, zstd)
> are any of these multi-threaded, or just single thread?  And if
> multi-threaded, how does it choose how many threads to use?
The algorithms are single threaded, recent ones like zstd are consuming a very
little amount of CPU, and in general, the cpu contention comes from the IO.

Jobs are multi-threaded, so, running multiple jobs at the same time will
increase the performance (up to a certain point) if it's a problem.

Best Regards,
Eric