On 2020-06-25 14:44, Seabass via PLUG-discuss wrote:
I am extracting from a large tar file, and at around the 2nd gig, my
computer starts to slow and even freeze up a bit. Mouse always moves
fine, but that’s about it.

iotop reports dm-crypt is the only thing and is using 99% of my
read/write. htop shows minimal processing being used and ram isn't
full...

So... can dm-crypt as full disk encryption slow the computer to
almost freezing?

Potentially, but I've never seen this happen. My experience is with just dm-crypt by itself on partitions on USB2 disks, no cryptsetup or any of the friendly wrappers. Are you using dm-crypt by itself, or LUKS, or something else entirely? Which CBC? Is LVM or RAID involved? Seeing anything in dmesg about disk errors? Are you using ext34, or something else?

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