Benchmarking Ubuntu 13.04 with no disk encryption, home directory encryption (eCryptfs), and full disk encryption. Also monitored CPU usage using MONITOR=cpu.usage environment variable. Benchmarking by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com.
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Ubuntu 13.04 Disk Encryption
Benchmarking Ubuntu 13.04 with no disk encryption, home directory encryption (eCryptfs), and full disk encryption. Also monitored CPU usage using MONITOR=cpu.usage environment variable. Benchmarking by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com.
,,"Full-Disk Encryption","No Encryption","Home Encryption"
Processor,,AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores),AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores),AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores)
Motherboard,,ASUS Crosshair V Formula,ASUS Crosshair V Formula,ASUS Crosshair V Formula
Chipset,,AMD ATI RD890 bridge,AMD ATI RD890 bridge,AMD ATI RD890 bridge
Memory,,8192MB,8192MB,8192MB
Disk,,60GB OCZ VERTEX2,60GB OCZ VERTEX2,60GB OCZ VERTEX2
Graphics,,AMD Radeon HD 4870 512MB,AMD Radeon HD 4870 512MB,AMD Radeon HD 4870 512MB
Audio,,Realtek ALC889,Realtek ALC889,Realtek ALC889
Monitor,,VA2431,VA2431,VA2431
Network,,Intel 82583V Gigabit Connection,Intel 82583V Gigabit Connection,Intel 82583V Gigabit Connection
OS,,Ubuntu 13.04,Ubuntu 13.04,Ubuntu 13.04
Kernel,,3.8.0-19-generic (x86_64),3.8.0-19-generic (x86_64),3.8.0-19-generic (x86_64)
Desktop,,Unity 7.0.0,Unity 7.0.0,Unity 7.0.0
Display Server,,X Server 1.13.3,X Server 1.13.3,X Server 1.13.3
Display Driver,,radeon 7.1.0,radeon 7.1.0,radeon 7.1.0
OpenGL,,3.0 Mesa 9.1.1 Gallium 0.4,3.0 Mesa 9.1.1 Gallium 0.4,3.0 Mesa 9.1.1 Gallium 0.4
Compiler,,GCC 4.7,GCC 4.7,GCC 4.7
File-System,,ext4,ext4,ext4 (ecryptfs)
Screen Resolution,,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080
,,"Full-Disk Encryption","No Encryption","Home Encryption"
"BlogBench - CPU Usage Monitor (Percent)",LIB,82.29,80.95,97.07
"PostMark - Disk Transaction Performance (TPS)",HIB,3026,3012,391
"FS-Mark - CPU Usage Monitor (Percent)",LIB,5.5,4.16,7.42
"Flexible IO Tester - CPU Usage Monitor (Percent)",LIB,7.26,4.64,9.93
"FS-Mark - CPU Usage Monitor (Percent)",LIB,5.89,4.92,7.25
"Dbench - CPU Usage Monitor (Percent)",LIB,32.7,46.72,46.55
"FS-Mark - Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size (Files/s)",HIB,59.23,127.67,39.53
"FS-Mark - Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size (Files/s)",HIB,58.83,127.97,39.97
"Dbench - CPU Usage Monitor (Percent)",LIB,9.77,9.49,11.07
"FS-Mark - Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads (Files/s)",HIB,62.67,171.60,64.00
"Dbench - Client Count: 6 (MB/s)",HIB,378.32,688.60,268.76
"Flexible IO Tester - Test: Intel IOMeter File Server Access Pattern (sec (Run Time))",LIB,188.16,77.79,143.41
"Dbench - Client Count: 1 (MB/s)",HIB,175.49,209.51,91.33
"IOzone - Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Read Performance (MB/s)",HIB,167.60,235.29,104.14
"IOzone - CPU Usage Monitor (Percent)",LIB,8.55,4.53,11.46
"Compile Bench - CPU Usage Monitor (Percent)",LIB,4.74,8.41,10.28
"FS-Mark - CPU Usage Monitor (Percent)",LIB,9.34,16.04,14.82
"IOzone - CPU Usage Monitor (Percent)",LIB,4.01,4.95,10.45
"PostMark - CPU Usage Monitor (Percent)",LIB,12.23,12.39,12.04
"PostgreSQL pgbench - TPC-B Transactions Per Second (TPS)",HIB,1811.78,2392.93,1327.32
"PostgreSQL pgbench - CPU Usage Monitor (Percent)",LIB,27.94,31.89,28.72
"CPU Usage Monitor - Phoronix Test Suite System Monitoring (Percent)",,23.81,35.1,24.87
"BlogBench - Test: Read (Final Score)",HIB,358969,291645,760809
"IOzone - Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance (MB/s)",HIB,51.34,246.72,60.82
"Compile Bench - Test: Compile (MB/s)",HIB,66.26,306.13,67.95
"Compile Bench - Test: Initial Create (MB/s)",HIB,85.60,220.35,49.51