Re: disk encryption performance hit

[Gordon Messmer <yinyang eburg com>]

Jeff Bastian wrote:
> I installed F9 yesterday under VMware Fusion 1.1.2 and enabled disk 
> encryption.  It was working fine until cron fired up makewhatis.  At 
> that point the system became so sluggish it was basically unusable.  
> Mouse clicks would sometimes work, sometimes get ignored, and some key 
> strokes would get ignored, others would get doubled (i.e., typing 
> 'foo' might end up with 'ffo' on the screen).

Try to reproduce that problem on real hardware rather than VMWare.  The 
key repeat thing used to bug me a lot, but I thought Michal Maruska 
fixed it years ago:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=76959