Ljubomir Ljubojevic office@plnet.rs wrote:
Hm, I forgot to mention that it would be for laptop. MSI VR601x, Celeron 1.73 GHz (Single Core), 80 GB SATA, 2GB RAM, CentOS 6.2 x86_64, encryption would be activated by Anaconda on ext4 partitions belonging to LVM Volume Group.
I had guessed that you were talking about a laptop; the server comment was only for completeness.
Although I have since replaced it with a Thinkpad T500, I used to run a Thinkpad T42 (which is a 32 bit system at around the same clock speed, with the same amount of memory) using full disk encryption under CentOS 5.6. As a general workstation it was just fine. Using it as a development system running eclipse, tomcat, db2, plus the usual desktop programs was, toward the end, causing it to start to chug, but I don't think that that was primarily due to encryption; I think available memory and processor speed for non-encryption tasks were the limiting factors. It also used a PATA disk, not SATA.
Devin