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Slow SSD + dm-crypt with Luks encryption in Ubuntu 12.10

I have an 128 GB SSD installed in my laptop (Samsung 840 Pro) on a Sata 3 interface. This laptop also has an i5 3210m Ivy Bridge Intel processor and 8 GB of RAM. I installed Ubuntu 12.10, using the ...
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How to benchmark a software's performance

How can I benchmark the performance of a particular software not complete system? I know various tools are available for system benchmarking. But I want to benchmark the performance of a particular ...
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How will 12.10 disk encryption affect performance?

As the title suggests. Massive performance degradation? And what technology does it use?
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How is the performance of an encrypted Home directory compared to a non-encrypted one? [duplicate]

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Why is ecryptfs so slow when running du -s?

I have been using Ubuntu's encrypted home folder system for some time now and have not really noticed any slowdowns except in two specific cases. When I run du -s in my home folder, it takes several ...
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What is the performance overhead of encrypted /home?

I have a netbook with Windows on the second partition and Xubuntu (/ and /home) on the third partition. I selected to encrypt my home folder during installation. The performance of the netbook is ...