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OpenSSH cipher performance

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The achievable speed of copying a file with OpenSSH (e.g. with scp) will depend on quite a few different factors such as CPU speed, CPU architecture, Network throughput, OpenSSH implementation, OS, hard drive speed, etc. But how much of a difference does choosing a different cipher algorithm make? And what’s the fastest OpenSSH cipher algorithm? Turns out, there’s no simple… Read more »

Creating a zfs pool on RAM backed block devices

Especially for performance benchmarks it can be quite handy to have a zfs pool that’s not limited by the speed of the underlying hard drives or other block devices (like iSCSI or fibre channel). The Linux kernel has a nice block device driver that let’s you create virtual block devices that are RAM backed. To list the available options, use… Read more »