Summary of my Fedora 9 Boot Time Testing

[Stephen Smalley]

On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 12:14 +0200, Harald Hoyer wrote:
> Harald Hoyer wrote:
> > Turning off selinux and related services saves 10s overall boot time. 
> > Trading off security with boot time. I don't know. But maybe a good 
> > starting point for optimization.
> 
> Boot time:
> 35s without selinux  and without auditd
> 40s with selinux + auditd + restorecond
> 45s with selinux + auditd + restorecond + setroubleshootd
> 
> I can live without setroubleshootd..

auditd and restorecond are also optional for selinux.  mcstransd should
be optional as well for selinux.  None of them existed originally for
selinux; they are all later add-ons.

In the absence of auditd, SELinux avc messages just go
to /var/log/messages instead.

In the absence of restorecond, you might find certain files will be left
mislabeled when re-created, although usually that gets covered
automatically by policy.  But you can always restorecon them by hand as
needed.

In the absence of mcstransd, the MCS/MLS label component (:s0) will be
visible and you won't have mapping support for translating categories to
more meaningful names.  But you don't really need it if not using
categories for anything.

-- 
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency