Re: The price of SELinux (CPU)

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try selinux=0, _if u feel that way :-)

about big o:

http://www.maththinking.com/boat/compsciBooksIndex.html

   daniel



--- John Richard Moser <[email protected]> wrote:

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> I've heard that SELinux has produced benchmarks such
> as 7% increased CPU
> load.  Is this true and current?  Is it dependent on
> policy?  What is
> the policy lookup complexity ( O(1), O(n),
> O(nlogn)...)?  Are there
> other places where a bottleneck may exist aside from
> gruffing with the
> policy?  Isn't the policy actually in xattrs so it's
> O(1)?  Where else
> would an overhead that big come from aside from a
> lookup in a table?
> 
> ....
> 
> Why is the sky blue?  Why do you have a mustach? 
> Why doesn't mommy have
> one?  Does she shave it?
> 
> At any rate, my personal end goal is a secure
> high-performance operating
> system, as user friendly as Ubuntu, Mandriva, or
> Win----.  To this end,
> I'm (still; a lot of you have seen me before)
> evaluating the performance
> hit of various user and kernel security enhancements
> like PaX,
> ProPolice, various OpenWall/GrSecurity niceness that
> needs to be divided
> out, and of course LSM/SELinux.  Also wondering
> about that PHKMalloc
> thing on openbsd; is it really all that, is it junk,
> how's it compare to
> the recent ptmalloc work, and can it run on Linux
> for direct benching .
> . . but that's off topic.
> 
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