On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 8:30 PM Richard Guy Briggs <rgb(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On 2020-06-18 23:48, Max Englander wrote:
> In case you’re any more receptive to the idea, I thought I’d mention
> that the need this patch addresses would be just as well fulfilled if
> wait times were reported in the audit status response along with other
> currently reported metrics like backlog length and lost events. Wait
> times could be reported as a cumulative sum, a moving average, or in
> some other way, and would help directly implicate or rule out backlog
> waiting as the cause in the event that an admin is faced with debugging
> degraded kernel performance. It would eliminate the need for a new flag,
> and fit well with the userspace tooling approach you suggested above.
Such as is captured in this upstream issue from 3 years ago:
https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/issues/63
"RFE: add kernel audit queue statistics"
I would be more open to the idea of reporting queue statistics as part
of the audit status information, or similar.
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paul moore
www.paul-moore.com