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Re: Crypto-Swap questions



On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:53:10PM -0800, Johannes Graumann wrote:
> Is the encryptionloop significantly slower than
> diskwrite/read speed?

 No, but it uses CPU, and disk I/O doesn't (when using dma:  with IDE, use
hdparm -v /dev/hda  to check.  With SCSI, well, you bought it so you
wouldn't have to worry about crap like that. :)

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