Re: The price of SELinux (CPU)

From: Dan C Marinescu (dan_c_marinescu_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/04/05

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    Date:	Mon, 3 Oct 2005 21:38:55 -0700 (PDT)
    To: John Richard Moser <nigelenki@comcast.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
    
    

    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:

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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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