Re: 100% cpu usage (kjournald, pdflush) with encrypted disks (dm-crypt)

[Gunter Ohrner]

Am Mittwoch, 1. Februar 2006 22:07, schrieb JG:
> non-journalling fs) or do i have to live with it that encryption eats
> all my cpu?

Yes of course, the encryption process is slower than the disk access, so 
encryption will eat 100% cpu while transfering data from/to an encrypted 
disk device.

Especially if you copy from one encrypted device to another, so the data 
also has to be decrypted first.

Did you expect anything else?

Greetings,

  Gunter

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