On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Alexandre Pereira
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> Hi Forum
>
> I have installed SL-5.3 x86_64 default installation/partitioning scheme in
> my laptop... the only... call it "different" thing that I have done is an
> LVM Luks encryption of my HDD ( It is a laptop, and I carry a lot of sensble
> stuff in it... ) In know it is not "MIL-SPEC hard" as a pkcs #13 protocol (
> Elliptic Curve cryptography over discrete fields ) but man... I do not
> carry warhead design plans, and sizing calculations with me... :-)
>
> Anyway... Trying to dump the content of DVD data, 4.5 Gb of it into my
> desktop took me about 70mn... THIS IS NUTS... Trying to do the same in
> another install , unencrypted this time, in another machine ammounted to the
> same...
>
> now, this IS an issue... this laptop will be used in heavy number
> crunching engineering applications... meaning disk I/O operations in the GB
> range ( Finite elements meshes, Genetic algorithm operations... massive data
> transfers to put it simply )
>
> Can this be solved... ?
>
> I used (aaarrgghhhh !!! ) Ubuntu with this same lappy and this problem was
> not there....
>