[Phoronix] Ubuntu 9.04 vs. Fedora 11 Performance

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 06/12/2009 06:42 PM, Kyle McMartin wrote:

> It's almost certainly attributable to the default install using audit.
> Roland and various others have done a lot of work improving things, but
> there is always going to be a per-syscall overhead to this kind of
> thing. A few extra usec a syscall adds up after a few hundred thousand
> calls...

Is there a benefit to running audit by default? Is it worth the cost?

Rahul