Disk encryption benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com... Stock (no encryption), eCryptfs home encryption, and LUKS-based LVM encryption...
Compare your own system(s) to this result file with the
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phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1403072-PL-ENCRYPTIO66
Ubuntu 14.04 Disk Encryption Benchmarks
Disk encryption benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com... Stock (no encryption), eCryptfs home encryption, and LUKS-based LVM encryption...
,,"Stock","Full-Disk Encryption","Home Directory Encryption"
Processor,,Intel Core i7-3517U @ 1.90GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i7-3517U @ 1.90GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i7-3517U @ 1.90GHz (4 Cores)
Motherboard,,ASUS UX32VDA v1.0,ASUS UX32VDA v1.0,ASUS UX32VDA v1.0
Chipset,,Intel 3rd Gen Core DRAM,Intel 3rd Gen Core DRAM,Intel 3rd Gen Core DRAM
Memory,,4096MB,4096MB,4096MB
Disk,,2 x 128GB SanDisk SD5SF212,2 x 128GB SanDisk SD5SF212,2 x 128GB SanDisk SD5SF212
Graphics,,Intel HD 4000 512MB (1150MHz),Intel HD 4000 512MB (1150MHz),Intel HD 4000 512MB (1150MHz)
Audio,,Realtek ALC269VB,Realtek ALC269VB,Realtek ALC269VB
Network,,Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6235,Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6235,Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6235
OS,,Ubuntu 14.04,Ubuntu 14.04,Ubuntu 14.04
Kernel,,3.13.0-16-generic (x86_64),3.13.0-16-generic (x86_64),3.13.0-16-generic (x86_64)
Desktop,,Unity 7.1.2,Unity 7.1.2,Unity 7.1.2
Display Server,,X Server 1.15.0,X Server 1.15.0,X Server 1.15.0
Display Driver,,intel 2.99.910,intel 2.99.910,intel 2.99.910
OpenGL,,3.3 Mesa 10.1.0-rc3,,3.3 Mesa 10.1.0-rc3
Compiler,,GCC 4.8,GCC 4.8,GCC 4.8
File-System,,ext4,ext4,ext4 (ecryptfs)
Screen Resolution,,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080
,,"Stock","Full-Disk Encryption","Home Directory Encryption"
"CPU Usage Monitor - Phoronix Test Suite System Monitoring (Percent)",,26.7,31.73,30.25
"FS-Mark - Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size (Files/s)",HIB,50.73,47.73,40.83
"FS-Mark - Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads (Files/s)",HIB,134.27,132.20,103.20
"FS-Mark - Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size (Files/s)",HIB,50.60,47.53,40.40
"Dbench - Client Count: 1 (MB/s)",HIB,91.86,90.77,70.52
"Compile Bench - Test: Initial Create (MB/s)",HIB,172.27,165.59,70.64
"Compile Bench - Test: Compile (MB/s)",HIB,221.47,219.43,189.78
"Compile Bench - Test: Read Compiled Tree (MB/s)",HIB,584.51,554.63,82.71
"PostMark - Disk Transaction Performance (TPS)",HIB,1789,1376,901
"PostMark - CPU Usage Monitor (Percent)",LIB,16.21,25.47,23.01
"Timed Linux Kernel Compilation - CPU Usage Monitor (Percent)",LIB,94.73,95.3,94.47
"Timed Apache Compilation - CPU Usage Monitor (Percent)",LIB,63.05,65.18,65.94
"FS-Mark - CPU Usage Monitor (Percent)",LIB,6.49,11.53,10.74
"FS-Mark - CPU Usage Monitor (Percent)",LIB,13.12,23.63,25.63
"FS-Mark - CPU Usage Monitor (Percent)",LIB,7.52,12.12,11.9
"Dbench - CPU Usage Monitor (Percent)",LIB,11.97,14.44,16.01
"Compile Bench - CPU Usage Monitor (Percent)",LIB,18.6,33.64,20.69
"Timed Linux Kernel Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,238.41,242.78,241.72
"Timed Apache Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,64.22,64.95,65.17