Author: Alan Pope Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu LVM LUKS
2008/12/22 Antony <ar@???>: > What's the bottleneck according to the system monitor and top? It's a
> bit hard to believe the 1.7MBps results from pseudo random generation,
> much less the encryption or disk system, but maybe filling from
> /dev/zero would help as a compromise?
>
I found /dev/urandom to be _quite_ the CPU {ab}user when I was using
it to trash a hard disk a while ago. Unsurprising really given what
it's doing. I switched to /dev/zero and performance of the was much
more acceptable.
