Thanks Michael. I knew the mentioned posts. I just tried the current Natty kernel 2.6.38-020638rc2-generic. Looks like it's solved there.
Seeker v2.0, 2007-01-15, http://www.linuxinsight.com/how_fast_is_your_disk.html Benchmarking /dev/sda [152627MB], wait 30 seconds.............................. Results: 4543 seeks/second, 0.22 ms random access time -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/653611 Title: extremely bad dm-crypt latency -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs