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[Jason Dixon <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Pass the path name in quotes, e.g. "*.wsp".

Jason Dixon
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On May 19, 2012, at 2:30 PM, bhardy <question197816@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> New question #197816 on Graphite:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/graphite/+question/197816
> 
> I am attempting to resize thousands of metrics and I am curious if anyone knows the most efficient way to do this (notes below).  The servers are beefy and attached to SAN.  
> 
> I shutdown carbon while resizing metrics.  If old find/exec is the only way to do this and will run for awhile, can this be done while carbon is running and not create any problems.  I use a top level directory to find all metrics.  Maybe going down a level or two and starting multiple resize scripts would also work to speed things up???
> 
> 
> XARGS does not work as it attempts to pass more than one wsp file name to the resize script and I get an error.
> find . -name *.wsp | xargs /usr/bin/whisper-resize.py 60:131400 --nobackup
> 
> OLD EXEC works but takes a long time due to it going thru each and every whisper file one-by-one and not doing so in bulk.
> find . -name *.wsp -exec /usr/bin/whisper-resize.py {} 60:131400 --nobackup \;
> 
> NEW EXEC does not work and suffers from the same problem as xargs.
> find . -name *.wsp -exec /usr/bin/whisper-resize.py 60:131400 --nobackup {} +
> 
> GNU PARALLEL works but takes somewhat as long as old exec.
> find . -name \*.wsp | /usr/bin/parallel -j500 /usr/bin/whisper-resize.py {} 60:131400 --nobackup
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