Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Dec 2009, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
>>
>> I also have a "threadzip" script, because gzip is invariably the
>> bottleneck
>> in the data stream. Utilize those extra cores!!! ;-)
>
> Gzip can be a bit slow. Luckily there is 'lzop' which is quite a lot
> more CPU efficient on i386 and AMD64, and even on SPARC. If the
> compressor is able to keep up with the network and disk, then it is
> fast enough. See "http://www.lzop.org/";.
I use the excellent pbzip2
zfs send ... | tee >(md5sum) | pbzip2 | ssh remote ...
Utilizes those 8 cores quite well :)
>
> Bob
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