In the last episode (Mar 25), Moritz Schlarb said:
> My HP Proliant Microserver, which I want to use as a NAS, is using an AMD
> Turion II Neo N40L processor. The plain disks give me about 100 MB/s
> using filebench with the fivestreamwrite/multistreamwrite workloads (as
> software RAID-1 under Linux and zpool mirror under FreeBSD).
>
> In Linux, using LUKS with cipher aes-xts-plain64 on a software RAID-1 I
> get the same ~100 MB/s for the same benchmarks.
>
> In FreeBSD, using a mirror zfs pool with underlying GELI with AES-XTS I
> get only ~50 MB/s.
>
> As the encryption algorithms should be the same, I'm wondering why FreeBSD
> is that slow for nearly exactly the same use case. Any ideas how I could
> tweak my settings in FreeBSD?
As a first step, I'd try reading/writing from the raw GELI and LUKS devices
to rule out performance differences due to the filesystems you're using.
--
Dan Nelson
dnel...@allantgroup.com
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