diff --git a/docs/source/guides/admin-guides/manage_clusters/common/deployment/acc_initrd_rootimg_gen.rst b/docs/source/guides/admin-guides/manage_clusters/common/deployment/acc_initrd_rootimg_gen.rst index 744d76705..b2abc7e51 100644 --- a/docs/source/guides/admin-guides/manage_clusters/common/deployment/acc_initrd_rootimg_gen.rst +++ b/docs/source/guides/admin-guides/manage_clusters/common/deployment/acc_initrd_rootimg_gen.rst @@ -3,11 +3,15 @@ Accelerating the diskless initrd and rootimg generating Generating diskless initrd with ``genimage`` and compressed rootimg with ``packimage`` and ``liteimg`` is a time-comsuming process, it can be accelerated by enabling paralell compression tool ``pigz`` on the management node with multiple processors and cores. See :ref:`Appendix ` for an example on ``packimage`` performance optimized with ``pigz`` enabled. + + +Enabling the ``pigz`` for diskless initrd and rootimg generating +---------------------------------------------------------------- + The paralell compression tool ``pigz`` can be enabled by installing ``pigz`` package on the management server or diskless rootimg. Depending on the method of generating the initrd and compressed rootimg, the steps differ in different Linux distributions. * Enabling the ``pigz`` on :ref:`Ubuntu Server LTS` --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Make sure the ``pigz`` is installed on the management node with the following command:: @@ -19,7 +23,6 @@ If not, ``pigz`` can be installed with the following command:: * Enabling the ``pigz`` on :ref:`Suse Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)` ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) Enabling the ``pigz`` in ``genimage`` (only supported in SLES12 or above) @@ -37,7 +40,6 @@ If not, ``pigz`` can be installed with the following command:: * Enabling the ``pigz`` on :ref:`Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)` ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The package ``pigz`` is shipped in Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (or EPEL) instead of Redhat iso, this involves some complexity.