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According to my tests, I take a 18.89% performance hit because of using ecryptfs. I understand this is not much, but just wanted to test and document it anyway.

Hard Disk Model: Western Digital, WDC WD5000LPVX-2, 500GB (465GiB)

##With ecryptfs

$ time dd if=/dev/zero of=filename bs=1024 count=1000000

1000000+0 records in
1000000+0 records out
1024000000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 13.7076 s, 74.7 MB/s

real 13.735     user 0.088      sys 9.298       pcpu 68.33

##Without ecryptfs (in /tmp)

$ time dd if=/dev/zero of=filename bs=1024 count=1000000
1000000+0 records in
1000000+0 records out
1024000000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 11.1235 s, 92.1 MB/s

real 11.136     user 0.099      sys 1.423       pcpu 13.67
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