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.
Compare your own system(s) to this result file with the
Phoronix Test Suite by running the command:
phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1305187-UT-UBUNTU13071
Ubuntu 13.04 Disk Encryption,
"BlogBench 1.0 - Test: Read",
Higher Results Are Better
"Full-Disk Encryption",386862,409950,297368,302022,365224,392386
"No Encryption",269589,291255,294919,296246,295467,302396
"Home Encryption",761674,761324,759430
"BlogBench 1.0 - CPU Usage Monitor",
Lower Results Are Better
"Full-Disk Encryption",
"No Encryption",
"Home Encryption",
"Compile Bench 0.6 - Test: Initial Create",
Higher Results Are Better
"Full-Disk Encryption",79.49,91.76,83.37,81.63,94.37,82.99
"No Encryption",207.89,227.28,220.72,223.97,221.91
"Home Encryption",49.34,49.84,49.36
"Compile Bench 0.6 - CPU Usage Monitor",
Lower Results Are Better
"Full-Disk Encryption",
"No Encryption",
"Home Encryption",
"Compile Bench 0.6 - Test: Compile",
Higher Results Are Better
"Full-Disk Encryption",92.54,75.41,53.68,61.22,48.45
"No Encryption",306.34,306.3,305.75
"Home Encryption",67.77,70.45,65.63
"CPU Usage Monitor - Phoronix Test Suite System Monitoring",
"Full-Disk Encryption",
"No Encryption",
"Home Encryption",
"Dbench 4.0 - Client Count: 1",
Higher Results Are Better
"Full-Disk Encryption",176.374,175.87,174.233
"No Encryption",206.505,210.598,211.433
"Home Encryption",90.8636,91.6124,91.509
"Dbench 4.0 - CPU Usage Monitor",
Lower Results Are Better
"Full-Disk Encryption",
"No Encryption",
"Home Encryption",
"Dbench 4.0 - Client Count: 6",
Higher Results Are Better
"Full-Disk Encryption",379.4,378.119,377.444
"No Encryption",690.624,689.325,685.855
"Home Encryption",269.676,269.364,267.236
"Dbench 4.0 - CPU Usage Monitor",
Lower Results Are Better
"Full-Disk Encryption",
"No Encryption",
"Home Encryption",
"Flexible IO Tester 1.57 - Test: Intel IOMeter File Server Access Pattern",
Lower Results Are Better
"Full-Disk Encryption",183.39006996155,186.14483118057,194.93266582489
"No Encryption",77.396950960159,78.094159841537,77.88769698143
"Home Encryption",141.13027906418,148.18749308586,140.90505003929
"Flexible IO Tester 1.57 - CPU Usage Monitor",
Lower Results Are Better
"Full-Disk Encryption",
"No Encryption",
"Home Encryption",
"FS-Mark 3.3 - Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size",
Higher Results Are Better
"Full-Disk Encryption",59.1,58,59.4
"No Encryption",128.1,127.7,128.1
"Home Encryption",39.9,40.2,39.8
"FS-Mark 3.3 - CPU Usage Monitor",
Lower Results Are Better
"Full-Disk Encryption",
"No Encryption",
"Home Encryption",
"FS-Mark 3.3 - Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads",
Higher Results Are Better
"Full-Disk Encryption",62,61.6,64.4
"No Encryption",166,174.4,174.4
"Home Encryption",63.2,64.8,64
"FS-Mark 3.3 - CPU Usage Monitor",
Lower Results Are Better
"Full-Disk Encryption",
"No Encryption",
"Home Encryption",
"FS-Mark 3.3 - Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size",
Higher Results Are Better
"Full-Disk Encryption",59.2,59.6,58.9
"No Encryption",128.3,127.4,127.3
"Home Encryption",39.5,39.5,39.6
"FS-Mark 3.3 - CPU Usage Monitor",
Lower Results Are Better
"Full-Disk Encryption",
"No Encryption",
"Home Encryption",
"IOzone 3.405 - Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance",
Higher Results Are Better
"Full-Disk Encryption",44.6494140625,41.984375,46.271484375,52.93359375,60.6474609375,61.53515625
"No Encryption",246.8046875,246.9423828125,246.41015625
"Home Encryption",59.96875,60.5234375,61.978515625
"IOzone 3.405 - CPU Usage Monitor",
Lower Results Are Better
"Full-Disk Encryption",
"No Encryption",
"Home Encryption",
"IOzone 3.405 - Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Read Performance",
Higher Results Are Better
"Full-Disk Encryption",169.5537109375,167.23828125,166.01171875
"No Encryption",234.1298828125,235.453125,236.296875
"Home Encryption",104.3642578125,103.8115234375,104.2509765625
"IOzone 3.405 - CPU Usage Monitor",
Lower Results Are Better
"Full-Disk Encryption",
"No Encryption",
"Home Encryption",
"PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11 - TPC-B Transactions Per Second",
Higher Results Are Better
"Full-Disk Encryption",1793.196411,1809.19598,1832.933755
"No Encryption",2428.184422,2350.880054,2399.727079
"Home Encryption",1298.376543,1345.10413,1338.481707
"PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11 - CPU Usage Monitor",
Lower Results Are Better
"Full-Disk Encryption",
"No Encryption",
"Home Encryption",
"PostMark 1.51 - Disk Transaction Performance",
Higher Results Are Better
"Full-Disk Encryption",3125,2941,3012
"No Encryption",3012,3012,3012
"Home Encryption",392,390,390
"PostMark 1.51 - CPU Usage Monitor",
Lower Results Are Better
"Full-Disk Encryption",
"No Encryption",
"Home Encryption",