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
Phoronix Test Suite by running the command:
phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1403072-PL-ENCRYPTIO66
Ubuntu 14.04 Disk Encryption Benchmarks,
"Dbench 4.0 - CPU Usage Monitor",
Lower Results Are Better
"Stock",
"Full-Disk Encryption",
"Home Directory Encryption",
"Compile Bench 0.6 - Test: Read Compiled Tree",
Higher Results Are Better
"Stock",578.91,587.08,587.55
"Full-Disk Encryption",560.08,551.87,551.95
"Home Directory Encryption",82.09,83.31,82.74
"FS-Mark 3.3 - CPU Usage Monitor",
Lower Results Are Better
"Stock",
"Full-Disk Encryption",
"Home Directory Encryption",
"Compile Bench 0.6 - CPU Usage Monitor",
Lower Results Are Better
"Stock",
"Full-Disk Encryption",
"Home Directory Encryption",
"Compile Bench 0.6 - Test: Initial Create",
Higher Results Are Better
"Stock",168.96,172.89,174.96
"Full-Disk Encryption",167.7,163.97,165.1
"Home Directory Encryption",71.75,69.93,70.23
"Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7 - CPU Usage Monitor",
Lower Results Are Better
"Stock",
"Full-Disk Encryption",
"Home Directory Encryption",
"FS-Mark 3.3 - CPU Usage Monitor",
Lower Results Are Better
"Stock",
"Full-Disk Encryption",
"Home Directory Encryption",
"PostMark 1.51 - CPU Usage Monitor",
Lower Results Are Better
"Stock",
"Full-Disk Encryption",
"Home Directory Encryption",
"Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 - CPU Usage Monitor",
Lower Results Are Better
"Stock",
"Full-Disk Encryption",
"Home Directory Encryption",
"FS-Mark 3.3 - CPU Usage Monitor",
Lower Results Are Better
"Stock",
"Full-Disk Encryption",
"Home Directory Encryption",
"PostMark 1.51 - Disk Transaction Performance",
Higher Results Are Better
"Stock",1798,1785,1785
"Full-Disk Encryption",1388,1373,1366
"Home Directory Encryption",899,902,902
"Dbench 4.0 - Client Count: 1",
Higher Results Are Better
"Stock",92.4859,92.0196,91.0603
"Full-Disk Encryption",90.9016,90.6448,90.7763
"Home Directory Encryption",70.5574,70.5389,70.4515
"FS-Mark 3.3 - Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads",
Higher Results Are Better
"Stock",135.2,134.8,132.8
"Full-Disk Encryption",132.3,132.3,132
"Home Directory Encryption",103.1,102.5,104
"FS-Mark 3.3 - Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size",
Higher Results Are Better
"Stock",50.3,50.9,50.6
"Full-Disk Encryption",48,47.5,47.1
"Home Directory Encryption",40.6,40.4,40.2
"FS-Mark 3.3 - Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size",
Higher Results Are Better
"Stock",50.8,50.5,50.9
"Full-Disk Encryption",47.4,47.6,48.2
"Home Directory Encryption",41,41.1,40.4
"Compile Bench 0.6 - Test: Compile",
Higher Results Are Better
"Stock",222.33,221.62,220.45
"Full-Disk Encryption",217.99,220.66,219.65
"Home Directory Encryption",192.58,190.29,186.47
"Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7 - Time To Compile",
Lower Results Are Better
"Stock",64.265958070755,64.165313005447,64.221451044083
"Full-Disk Encryption",64.69634604454,64.776678085327,65.37096786499
"Home Directory Encryption",65.314416885376,65.319239139557,64.870719909668
"CPU Usage Monitor - Phoronix Test Suite System Monitoring",
"Stock",
"Full-Disk Encryption",
"Home Directory Encryption",
"Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 - Time To Compile",
Lower Results Are Better
"Stock",230.02079391479,257.5911757946,227.63292694092
"Full-Disk Encryption",234.04721307755,262.23327589035,232.05477499962
"Home Directory Encryption",233.91935801506,259.41869282722,231.8208501339