[OpenAFS] fs setcrypt benchmarks?

Derek Atkins warlord@MIT.EDU
04 Jun 2003 10:59:59 -0400


I would suspect that with today's computers the AFS service is I/O
bound and not CPU bound, so encrypting the traffic shouldn't be very
noticible.  Some actual performance testing would be useful.

-derek

Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:

> Ray Link <rlink+@pitt.edu> writes:
> 
> > Don't get me wrong; I'd love to enable fcrypt on all of our systems
> > right now.  I just have to prove to management that it won't have a
> > noticeable impact on our users.  That's why I asked for benchmarks.
> 
> We turned it on for everyone after the recent security advisory.  We
> couldn't detect any performance change whatsoever.
> 
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