[plug] XMMS && dm-crypt

[Timothy White]

I have just started experimenting with dm-crypt (device mapper 
encryption) and am encrypting most of my partitions (for the sake of it 
as an experiment.) I have done most of my partitions and they are fine.
But...

I moved all my music onto a 25Gb encrypted partition and now XMMS 
behaves sluggishly. While the music still plays fine anything else just 
chugs. The screen update (of XMMS's time scale) and playlist are very 
unresponsive.
CPU usage and memory usage are low so I think it is caused by IO waits.

Would this be dm-crypt not functioning well for anything other than 
sequential read/writes (i.e. it doesn't like playing the music and 
getting ID3 tags for other songs at the same time ....)?

Is there some way I can speed things up or should I leave it on an 
unencrypted partition? Read/write speeds appear to be almost the same 
its just when playing the music. I haven't had a chance to try with 
another media player yet.

Tim
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