Hi Jorge, you can see that running the test several times gives you some appreciation for the variation in the measurement. Anyways, this is what I would expect, i.e. TrueCrypt having a little bit lower speed due to the userspace interface. Thanks for posting these! Arno On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 07:58:58PM -0400, Jorge F?bregas wrote: > On 07/27/2011 07:18 PM, Jorge F?bregas wrote: > > I decided to perform some tests on my Fedora 14 box. This is not a > > pro benchmark so be warned :) > > Hi everyone, > > I performed the tests again (twice for each test) but this time I > formatted the LUKS partition using: > > cryptsetup luksFormat -c aes-xts-plain -s 256 -h ripemd160 /dev/sdd1 > > ...so that I was more _similar_ to the TrueCrypt setup. Also, between > each test I run: > > echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches > > Here are the new results for the same payload (143 GB of data): > > ### TRUECRYPT #### > > 1st round: > real 105m39.547s > user 28m17.667s > sys 42m25.300s > > > 2nd round: > real 105m40.271s > user 28m21.893s > sys 42m19.672s > > > ### LUKS ### > > 1st round: > real 104m33.901s > user 27m41.362s > sys 41m0.339s > > > 2nd round: > real 104m44.913s > user 27m42.364s > sys 40m57.655s > > > Now as you may see, LUKS is roughly around 1 minute ahead (sytem-time) > compared to TrueCrypt. It appears the change in cipher operation mode > definitely affected the results (thing I should have done on the first > place). > > Cheers and thank your for the feedback! > Jorge > _______________________________________________ > dm-crypt mailing list > dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx > http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt > -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno@xxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
