>>>> when using softraid crypto with OpenBSD 4.6-current I never get more >>>> than ~10-11 MB/s disk writing speed even though the disk (WD Raptor 73 >>>> GB) itself, without crypto, can do way more. >>>> >>> Uhmmmm...that sounds wear to me. I just copy 70 Gb from a USB SATA HD to >>> the local partitions under a softraid crypto device and I get 14-16 Mb/s >>> all the time. Of course I don't expect more from a USB >>> device >>> >> So why don't you write to the softraid device from /dev/zero, >> isolating yourself from assumptions about USB or whatever? >> > one sees the same sort of bottleneck using e.g. bonnie as michael > demonstrates using his ftp transfer.
Why do you even introduce other possible bottlenecks (such as FTP speed or bonnie or USB speed) when all you want to "measure" is the r/w speed of the crypto device?
