Bug 165163 - audit - syscall performance
Summary: audit - syscall performance
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 4.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
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Assignee: David Woodhouse
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks: 156322
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-08-04 19:39 UTC by Linda Wang
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: RHSA-2005-514
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2005-10-05 13:48:34 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2005:514 0 qe-ready SHIPPED_LIVE Important: Updated kernel packages available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 2 2005-10-05 04:00:00 UTC

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
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