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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: max number of rules?
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 14:45:39 -0400
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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