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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: max number of rules?
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 14:45:39 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <10047464.4tZlaGMcD8@x2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALnj_=5JfHMsCp9KTMEhRW=ddmVSLNRK3b8RCeOs7ob73M0PWg@mail.gmail.com>

On Monday, August 27, 2012 11:02:24 AM Peter Moody wrote:
> Does anyone know the number of audit rules that can be installed on a
> system before having to traverse the list of rules on every syscall
> starts to take a noticeable amount of time? I'm assuming no rules that
> generate excessive logs, so nothing like '-a exit,always -S execve' or
> '-a exit,always -S open'.

We haven't done any official benchmarking in a long time. The way the rules are 
written very much affects performance, though.

-Steve

      reply	other threads:[~2012-08-27 18:45 UTC|newest]

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2012-08-27 18:02 max number of rules? Peter Moody
2012-08-27 18:45 ` Steve Grubb [this message]

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