[Phoronix] Ubuntu 9.04 vs. Fedora 11 Performance

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Fri Jun 12 15:44:02 UTC 2009


On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 19:01 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 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?

...and how does one disable it, so the people doing the benchmarks can
confirm that's the cause?

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