On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 07:21:26PM +0100, Andrew Henry wrote: > Sorry Andrew for double post...when I hit reply it goes to you and not the > list, so I have now resent the mail to the list... for the second time! The proper thing to do is Reply-to-List. I read the list and don't need a copy sent to me directly. You are using Thunderbird -- there is a plugin/extension for Reply-to-List. Check the archives here for mention of it, or just poke around at mozilla. > > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > I honestly don't know. There *has* to be some performance hit because > the data gets mangled before hitting the disk. I don't *notice* any > performance hit on my laptop. > > > You just gave me an idea to try this on the laptop itself. I had used scp to > copy a file from another laptop to the newly encrypted usb disk, but I can do > the same operation to the usb disks host laptop to see if there is a problem > with the disk somehoe or with the software. I have not had a single issue with > performance in the 2 years I have had this setup and now the only thing that > changed is encrypting the usb disk. Note that my server laptop is also fully > encrypted and there were no issues with performance of the unencrypted usb disk > before I changed it. Yes, eliminating the scp (and any other variables) would be a good thing to narrow down this problem. > > Can the "terminal loses focus: copy > suspends" behaviour be fixed? I have not tested read performance yet, > but I expect and hope that it will be more normal. > > > > I would say you've got something messed up there. > > > Yeah, and another thing I noticed is that when copying if I move the mouse > pointer then it sticks every now and again for a second or so. Whether this is > due to overloaded processor or an indication of some kind of wait event I do > not know. > > I am running Debian Etch 4.0r1 which I installed last week. before that I was > running Ubuntu 7.10 desktop without encryption. > > I think I need to do some more testing then do some googling etc. yup. I wouldn't be afraid of wiping the drive and trying again as well. A
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