Update 11.12.2021: Finally got a new test machine and started re-evaluating the current situation. The tests were done on a Quad-Core i5 system, using a 24 GB RAM disk (32 GB RAM total). System is Ubuntu 20.04 (x86_64). Basic test were done using fio with variations of this command: The different benchmark scenarios are these: […]
Tag: cryptsetup
I recently installed a new home NAS server. For data protection all disks should be encrypted using dm-crypt. However performance was far from what I expected. After searching some time I found the reason (and a proposed solution) in a very interesting article of Ignat Korchagin (also a video talk about this topic is available […]