From 6d4c40f8d0e9988f051a1289863f687490f6b76d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexander Neumann Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2018 22:39:56 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add section about file read concurrency --- changelog/unreleased/issue-549 | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/changelog/unreleased/issue-549 b/changelog/unreleased/issue-549 index 01cb38144..cd880475a 100644 --- a/changelog/unreleased/issue-549 +++ b/changelog/unreleased/issue-549 @@ -25,6 +25,10 @@ once (which prints a bit more detail what restic is doing) or twice (which prints a line for each file/directory restic encountered, together with some statistics). +Another issue that was resolved is the new code only reads two files at most. +The old code would read way too many files in parallel, thereby slowing down +the backup process on spinning discs a lot. + https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/549 https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1286 https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/446