From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.2 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8988EC433DB for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2021 04:04:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.server123.net (mail.server123.net [78.46.64.186]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ECF2961967 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2021 04:04:51 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org ECF2961967 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=wagner.name Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=dm-crypt-bounces@saout.de X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at saout.de Received-SPF: None (mailfrom) identity=mailfrom; client-ip=84.19.178.47; helo=v1.tansi.org; envelope-from=arno@wagner.name; receiver= Received: from v1.tansi.org (mail.tansi.org [84.19.178.47]) by mail.server123.net (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2021 04:59:36 +0100 (CET) Received: from gatewagner.dyndns.org (81-6-44-245.init7.net [81.6.44.245]) by v1.tansi.org (Postfix) with ESMTPA id CAB6A14017E; Mon, 22 Mar 2021 04:59:37 +0100 (CET) Received: by gatewagner.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 25F7D17A27E; Mon, 22 Mar 2021 04:59:36 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 04:59:36 +0100 From: Arno Wagner To: ken Message-ID: <20210322035935.GC13798@tansi.org> Mail-Followup-To: ken , dm-crypt maillist References: <1AA4BD9C-312B-4DDA-8C1F-3AE964C2D98E@mousecar.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1AA4BD9C-312B-4DDA-8C1F-3AE964C2D98E@mousecar.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Message-ID-Hash: K7HER467INMNFVEZI73FCSGOAWNSMFNG X-Message-ID-Hash: K7HER467INMNFVEZI73FCSGOAWNSMFNG X-MailFrom: arno@wagner.name X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-dm-crypt.saout.de-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; suspicious-header CC: dm-crypt maillist X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.2 Precedence: list Subject: [dm-crypt] Re: Performance of KVM & guest hosts under DM Crypt? List-Id: List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Again, wrong place to ask. Your mouse pointer is provided by the graphics system with some real-time properties. No connection to disk encryption. Regards, Arno On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 18:05:51 CET, ken wrote: > Does anyone have experience running KVM and two or three guests systems under dm-crypt and can comment performance? I did a search on this topic and the only thing I could find was very brief document written in 2009. > > All this will run on a new and fairly powerful system, powerful for a laptop anyway. It'll have an SSD for a hard drive, 16 gig of RAM, and a bottom-of-the-line 2.6GHz i7 Intel CPU. > > My main concern is with Graphics programs where I'll be using a mouse. A slow system can be annoying at times, but trying to edit a photograph in the Gimp or trying to edit a drawing in AutoCAD (running on W98!) can be next to impossible if the mouse pointer onscreen doesn't keep up with the mouse in hand. > > If any of this will be problematic, are there any tweaks which could be made in order to increase performance? > > Tnx much. > > _______________________________________________ > dm-crypt mailing list -- dm-crypt@saout.de > To unsubscribe send an email to dm-crypt-leave@saout.de -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., Email: arno@wagner.name GnuPG: ID: CB5D9718 FP: 12D6 C03B 1B30 33BB 13CF B774 E35C 5FA1 CB5D 9718 ---- A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. -- Plato If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list -- dm-crypt@saout.de To unsubscribe send an email to dm-crypt-leave@saout.de