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Re: Encrypted partition perfomance



Eduardo M KALINOWSKI escreveu:
>     I intend to use encrypted partitions in my new system, probably
> using dm-crypt with the suggested settings. I understand this will have
> an impact on performance, but how big it is? I'm talking about a Core 2
> Duo E8400 (@ 3.0GHz) with 2Gb of RAM. Will it be really noticeable

Well, I gave it a try. And I cannot notice and impact on performance,
the system is perfecly responsible. As for data transfer speed, I cannot
know for sure since the whole disk is encrypted. But I suspect it is not
affected.

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Eduardo M Kalinowski
eduardo@kalinowski.com.br


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