On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 7:30 PM, Pete French <petefre...@ticketswitch.com> wrote: >> GELI+ZFS and Debian Linux with MDRAID and cryptofs. Has anyone here >> made any benchmarks regarding how much of a performance hit is caused >> by using 2 geli devices as vdevs for a ZFS mirror pool in FreeBSD (a > > I havent done it directly on the same boxes, but I have two systems > with idenitical drives, each with a ZFS mirror pool, one wth GELI, and > one without. Simple read test shows no overhead in using GELI at all. > > I would recommend using the new AHCI driver though - greatly > improves throughput.
How fast is the CPU in the system showing no overhead? Having no noticable overhead whatsoever sounds extremely unlikely unless you are actually using it on something like a very modern dualcore or better. - Sincerely, Dan Naumov _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
