Hi, Am 10.11.2009 23:21, schrieb Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez: > On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 21:31 +0100, Michael wrote: >> when using softraid crypto with OpenBSD 4.6-current I never get more >> than ~10-11 MB/s disk writing speed even though the disk (WD Raptor 73 >> GB) itself, without crypto, can do way more. > > Uhmmmm...that sounds wear to me. I just copy 70 Gb from a USB SATA HD to > the local partitions under a softraid crypto device and I get 14-16 Mb/s > all the time. Of course I don't expect more from a USB > device...so...there is something more in your set up that it is > affecting the speed.
You have ~4-5 Mb/s more than I do. Not much more but better than nothing. I doubt that your USB drive is that slow though so the bottleneck must be something else. Michael