Re: [Duplicity-talk] Verification of filelists, multiprocessing

[Cláudio Gil]

Em 27/01/2016 22:27, "Andreas Doll" <address@hidden> escreveu:
>
> On 2016-01-27 at 21:27, Cláudio Gil wrote:
> > Maybe paralelization could be introduced in a few select points of duplicity.
> > But the part that is mostly CPU-bound is the encryption and encrypting a file
> > will use 1 core.
>
> Yes, my naive idea was that it may be possible to de/encrypt files in
> parallel. However, I'm not familiar with duplicitys codebase, and I'm not sure
> if this is feasible.

Multiple volumes can be encrypted or decrypted in parallel but, regardless of being easy or hard to change duplicity to do it, I'm not even sure it's worth it. There is a lot of IO involved, for example, and volumes still need to be processed in a sequence, by duplicity.

Cheers,
Cláudio