[ale] Wow, Ubuntu...

Stephen Benjamin skbenja at gmail.com
Tue Sep 30 21:29:58 EDT 2008


It's a slower drive, 5400 rpm.  But I notice the performance hit pretty bad
with the drive encryption.  When I had it w/o, I used to run 2 vmware
instances (win xp and win 2k3) without an issue....now just one makes the
whole system crawl.

I haven't done any benchmark testing or anything though.



> I'll have to try my vmware workstation on my laptop. Turion X2 1.6GHz w/1GB
> RAM Fedora 9 with / swap encrypted. I can't see a performance hit on my
> drive encryption. It may just be that the drive itself is so slow...
>
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