Fedora 26 Disk Encryption Comparison AMD Ryzen 5 1400 testing full disk LUKS encryption on Fedora 26. Tests by Michael Larabel for a future article. Stock: Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 1400 @ 3.20GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte AB350N-Gaming WIFI-CF, Chipset: AMD Device 1450, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 512GB INTEL SSDSC2KW51, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Audio: NVIDIA GP108 HD Audio, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Intel Wireless 3165 OS: Fedora 26, Kernel: 4.11.10-300.fc26.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.24.2, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.15, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 17.1.4 Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 4.0 128 bits), Compiler: GCC 7.1.1 20170622, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 Full Disk Encryption: Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 1400 @ 3.20GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte AB350N-Gaming WIFI-CF, Chipset: AMD Device 1450, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 512GB INTEL SSDSC2KW51, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Audio: NVIDIA GP108 HD Audio, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Intel Wireless 3165 OS: Fedora 26, Kernel: 4.11.10-300.fc26.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.24.2, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.15, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 17.1.4 Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 4.0 128 bits), Compiler: GCC 7.1.1 20170622, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 SQLite 3.8.10.2 Test Target: Default Test Directory Seconds < Lower Is Better Stock ................ 15.41 |===================================== Full Disk Encryption . 20.33 |================================================= SQLite 3.8.10.2 CPU Usage (Summary) Monitor Percent < Lower Is Better Stock ................ MIN: 0.3 AVG: 5.2 MAX: 8.4 Full Disk Encryption . MIN: 0.3 AVG: 7.0 MAX: 10.0 Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 6 MB/s > Higher Is Better Stock ................ 792.30 |================================================ Full Disk Encryption . 771.21 |=============================================== Dbench 4.0 CPU Usage (Summary) Monitor Percent < Lower Is Better Stock ................ MIN: 0.0 AVG: 32.8 MAX: 38.5 Full Disk Encryption . MIN: 0.7 AVG: 33.8 MAX: 39.2 Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better Stock ................ 312.98 |================================================ Full Disk Encryption . 290.90 |============================================= Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory IOPS > Higher Is Better Stock ................ 78242 |================================================= Full Disk Encryption . 72722 |============================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 CPU Usage (Summary) Monitor Percent < Lower Is Better Stock ................ MIN: 0.0 AVG: 10.1 MAX: 13.2 Full Disk Encryption . MIN: 0.0 AVG: 17.2 MAX: 24.2 Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better Stock ................ 350.54 |================================================ Full Disk Encryption . 352.34 |================================================ Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory IOPS > Higher Is Better Stock ................ 87631 |================================================= Full Disk Encryption . 88081 |================================================= Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 CPU Usage (Summary) Monitor Percent < Lower Is Better Stock ................ MIN: 0.0 AVG: 11.3 MAX: 17.0 Full Disk Encryption . MIN: 0.0 AVG: 22.4 MAX: 30.0 Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better Stock ................ 360.15 |================================================ Full Disk Encryption . 294.62 |======================================= Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory IOPS > Higher Is Better Stock ................ 90034 |================================================= Full Disk Encryption . 73651 |======================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 CPU Usage (Summary) Monitor Percent < Lower Is Better Stock ................ MIN: 0.0 AVG: 7.7 MAX: 11.5 Full Disk Encryption . MIN: 0.0 AVG: 18.7 MAX: 26.3 Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better Stock ................ 415.03 |=============================================== Full Disk Encryption . 427.45 |================================================ Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory IOPS > Higher Is Better Stock ................ 103753 |=============================================== Full Disk Encryption . 106859 |================================================ Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 CPU Usage (Summary) Monitor Percent < Lower Is Better Stock ................ MIN: 0.0 AVG: 9.3 MAX: 12.7 Full Disk Encryption . MIN: 0.0 AVG: 22.4 MAX: 30.5 FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Stock ................ 156.50 |================================================ Full Disk Encryption . 134.33 |========================================= FS-Mark 3.3 CPU Usage (Summary) Monitor Percent < Lower Is Better Stock ................ MIN: 1.0 AVG: 7.2 MAX: 11.0 Full Disk Encryption . MIN: 0.3 AVG: 9.6 MAX: 13.2 FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads Files/s > Higher Is Better Stock ................ 224.00 |================================================ Full Disk Encryption . 199.00 |=========================================== FS-Mark 3.3 CPU Usage (Summary) Monitor Percent < Lower Is Better Stock ................ MIN: 0.0 AVG: 19.0 MAX: 27.7 Full Disk Encryption . MIN: 0.0 AVG: 22.4 MAX: 30.7 CPU Usage (Summary) Monitor Phoronix Test Suite System Monitoring Percent Stock ................ MIN: 0.0 AVG: 26.3 MAX: 38.5 Full Disk Encryption . MIN: 0.0 AVG: 28.6 MAX: 39.2