From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from tansi.org (ns.km10532-04.keymachine.de [87.118.102.195]) by mail.saout.de (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:46:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: from gatewagner.dyndns.org (84-74-164-239.dclient.hispeed.ch [84.74.164.239]) by tansi.org (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 8344C1218401 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:46:37 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:46:35 +0200 From: Arno Wagner Message-ID: <20100817184635.GA17921@tansi.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Subject: [dm-crypt] dm-crypt flush-to-disk freezes List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: dm-crypt@saout.de Hi all, now I have been hit with a flush-to-disk problem. The set-up is a dm-crypt partition with a Windows XP VM and the current VMplayer, all with kernel 2.6.34.4 from kernel.org and current vmware-tools in the VM. The XP in the VM (which I use when I cannot avoid working with Word) frequently hangs for single digit seconds, on what seems to be flushes-to-disk. Moving the VM to an unencrypted partition cures the problem, but as I work on confidential stuff, I would rather have it encrypted. What is the current take on this problem? Any fix known or expected for the near future? Thanks for any insights. Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno@wagner.name GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier