Encrypted home directory

[James Cassell]

On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:01:28 -0500, Marc Schwartz  
<marc_schwartz at comcast.net> wrote:

>
> I have a separate /boot partition outside the LVM, since that cannot be
> encrypted.
> Using hdparm to test sequential reads on the encrypted and unencrypted
> partitions, I get 30 MB/Sec on the former and 36 MB/Sec on the latter.
> So I am looking at a 15-20% hit on throughput and that has been pretty
> consistent over several releases.

Could the performance difference here be due to the partitions being on  
different parts of the disk?  Throughput is higher on the outside of the  
disk (which is the logical beginning of the disk.)  I don't think you have  
done a fair benchmark.

-- 
James Cassell