Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> (2013-09-01): > I have to wonder why this is so slow. We should be able to write about > 100 MB/s sequentially to a recent HD, so 750 GB would take about 2 hours > and not 36 hours. > > Is encryption really that expensive, and if so can we fix this by adding > accelerated crypto drivers to d-i (such as aesni_intel)? I have no particular clue about that (except the few times I used it it really felt slow, but then that was with low end laptops, so I wasn't expecting anything speedish); but the idea of adding accelerated crypto stuff to d-i would seem like a nice idea if that indeed helps. Mraw, KiBi.
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