On 01/08/2012 12:56 AM, Devin Reade wrote: > Ljubomir Ljubojevic<office at plnet.rs> wrote: > >> What will be the performance impact on my Celeron 1.73 GHz CPU and/or >> hdd speed? > > Well, the usual "it depends on your [exact] environment" is the real answer. > > However from a subjective perspective I've found that the only time > that I've really noticed a performance impact is during lots of I/O, > such as a *large* tarball extraction. (Presumably writing a large file > would be similar.) Eclipse, for example, touches a huge amount of files > but encryption on the underyling filesystem is not generally noticable. > It can be more noticable on a single core, single thread CPU. > > If you have a server doing significant continuous I/O, probably > benchmarking is the only reasonable way to tell. 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. -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe Google is the Mother, Google is the Father, and traceroute is your trusty Spiderman... StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant