Bug#628718: linux-2.6: Swap on encrypted volume slows system to a crawl (not explicable by encryption overhead)

Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.38-2 Severity: important I'm using swap space on an LVM volume on a LUKS-encrypted partition. Swapping is ridiculously slow (< 1MB/s) whenever I swap to either the encrypted swap partition, or some file inside an encrypted partition. It is reasonably fast when swap

Bug#611577: linux-image-2.6.32-5-686: Allocating large chunk of memory locks up the system for several minutes despite no disk i/o occurring

Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-30 Severity: important OK, the swap partition is on an lvm volume inside a luks-encrypted physical volume on my Laptop's harddisk. I have 2600MB of swap and 1GB of RAM. When I allocate 2300MB (using malloc and then memset to force the kernel to actually allocat