RE: performance of rsyncrypto

[hf h. <tim...@ho...>]

I'm running it on the redhat platform. and cpu is 4 cores. 
 


Date: Sun, 9 May 2010 12:52:19 +0300
From: sh...@sh...
To: tim...@ho...
CC: rsy...@li...
Subject: Re: performance of rsyncrypto

hhf wrote: 


hi:
    I just found the rsyncrypto project recently, and I use it to encrypt my own server's database, and then rsync to another place. it's a really good project.
 
    I think the encryption strength is enough for me, but the speed of the rsyncrypto is only 5MB/s in my case. my database is around 50GB, so it should cost few hours to encrypt the database file. 
    Is the speed 5MB/s normal? my PC's performance is quite good. If it's normal, the openssl AES cause it? or the gzip --rsyncable cause it?
What platform are you running rsyncrypto on? The Windows performance is not as good as the Linux performance, mainly due to the multi-process orientation of the program (data passes between the encryption and the compression on a pipe).

There are several causes to the performance issues in rsyncrypto. First, rsyncrypto only utilizes about 1.5 CPUs, so many multi cores today are under-utilized by rsyncrypto. We are also calling the AES encryption one block at a time, which might further be non-optimal.

Shachar

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Shachar Shemesh
Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd.
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