Dear "Joshua J. Kugler",

In message <200901221238.33834.joshua AT eeinternet DOT com> you wrote:
> Are there any pending plans to add a "multi core" option to the FD to
> enable compression to happen on more than one core?  We have a few
> eight-core servers that are rather idle during the backup window, so it
> would be great to use more than one core for compression.  Something
> like a Max Core direction for the FD would be cool! :)

Well, if such a thing gets implemented, it should be able to
automatically pick up the number of cores on the current system (but
of course with an option to overwrite that value).

"getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN" (respective the equivalent C code) might
be a good start.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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