Re: Soekris vpn1201 slowdown weirdness

[Henning Brauer <lists-openbsd@bsws.de>]

On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 01:23:06PM -0700, Erasmus Oblar wrote:
> It appears that the des3 tests work faster *w/out*
> /dev/crypto.

the crypto cards are not neessarily _faster_ than doing the same stuff 
in software if you have a very fast CPU - but the CPU is nearly idle 
while doing so on the card, so you have the cpu cycles left for your 
applications.

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