gbde Performance - 35Mb/s vs 5.2 MB/s

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <3ED203E6.1000202 at zwecker.de>, Christophe Zwecker writes:
>Hi,
>
>I  get 35MB/s write without gbde and 5 MB on a gbde crypted device.

>here how I tested:
>
>Crypted device:
>dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/test0.trash bs=1024k count=100
>104857600 bytes transferred in 19.927204 secs (5262033 bytes/sec)
>
>Noncrypted:
>dd if=/dev/zero of=/test0.trash bs=1024k count=100
>104857600 bytes transferred in 2.993742 secs (35025597 bytes/sec)
>
>Could anyone tell me if this is supposed to be slow like that ? Or is
>there anything I missed ?

This sounds pretty likely for write performance.

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