Giorgos D. Pallas wrote: > Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: >> 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? >> >> > > Hello my friend. > > I converted my laptop (Celeron 1.9GHz, 1 GB RAM, 5400RPM HD) to a full > encrypted system a year ago > (http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/577) and noticed > absolutely no performance impact. Also note, that I constantly torture > the system with large file transfers from partition to partition, large > file creation etc etc, and performance seems to me exactly the same. > > Giorgos
I've been also using encrypted partitions (all except boot) for the last 2,5 years or so on a single core system and dual core system with respectively 1GHz and 2GHz CPU and 1GB vs 2GB and didn't notice any major issue with them. On my 500MHz old machine there is a slow down (cpu load) when using encryption, but unless I don't have multiple IO's it still manages all of it, so loss is really very low hope this helps regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
