Re: The price of SELinux (CPU)

[Dan C Marinescu <dan_c_marinescu@yahoo.com>]

i suggested you to disable selinux in order to have
something to compare to... (engineers compare,
measure, instead of believing in rummors...)

   d

--- John Richard Moser <nigelenki@comcast.net> wrote:

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> I'm not an abortionist; if I hear something has an
> ugly side, I try to
> find out if it can be fixed, and if the trade-off is
> worth getting rid
> of it.  SELinux and LSM are quite useful you know;
> the overhead is
> probably not even that significant on the desktop to
> gamers (although if
> you TELL them about it they'll piss themselves),
> from a practical
> viewpoint considering their excessive hardware.
> 
> Dan C Marinescu wrote:
> > try selinux=0, _if u feel that way :-)
> > 
> > about big o:
> > 
> >
>
http://www.maththinking.com/boat/compsciBooksIndex.html
> > 
> >    daniel
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > --- John Richard Moser <nigelenki@comcast.net>
> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 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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