Kim C wrote: > I have been using aes loop for quite some time now, and it has been > working fine until now. Today I seem to get much degraded performance on > certain files. I am not sure what is causing this (or if it is even aes > loop that causing it), so any pointers of what to do to further > invistigate would be nice. I suspect that it is failing hard disk that has to do many read attempts to get data off disk platters. > Hardware: > PII 450 MHz > 96mb ram > linux 2.6.12 Pentium-2 is old. Is your hard disk also that old? > aes loop (cant find installed version number) losetup program appears to be from loop-AES-v3. Your loop device is using v2 on-disk format, so kernel driver can be from loop-AES-v2 or v3. This information is based on your "losetup /dev/loop3" command output. > Sorry if this mail just shows the obvious and expected behaviour. But my > mind cant find a good explanation for these slowdowns. Are there any ways > to examine the queues to see what is taking so long? Are there any kernel error messages? # dmesg Are there any problems in hard disk SMART data? # smartctl -a /dev/hda -- Jari Ruusu 1024R/3A220F51 5B 4B F9 BB D3 3F 52 E9 DB 1D EB E3 24 0E A9 DD - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
