Bug 165163

Summary:	audit - syscall performance
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Linda Wang <lwang>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	4.0	CC:	jbaron
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Fixed In Version:	RHSA-2005-514	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Linda Wang 2005-08-04 19:39:17 UTC

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Description of problem:
with auditd on, system's performance degrade about 15% due to traversing the rules.  Therefore every system call is impacted with the overhead, which degrades the performance.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.9-11

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.install RHEL4 U2
2.run time test...
3.
  

Additional info:

Comment 1 Linda Wang 2005-08-05 13:40:57 UTC

comitted to 2.6.9-12.1 respin.  change state to MODIFIED

Comment 5 Red Hat Bugzilla 2005-10-05 13:48:34 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-514.html