On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 2:17 PM, Klaus Lichtenwalder
<klic(a)mnet-online.de> wrote:
>>> your rules to put all the ones with '-F
auid>=400' below a single
>>> line rule
>>> like this:
>>> -a never,exit -F auid<400
>>>
>>> and remove the '-F auid>=400' from all of the rules below it.
>>>
>> ...
>>
>> I did this, and verified it, but there was absolutely no difference
>> to unsorted rules having -S all also specified
>>
>> Still cpu %system up to 50% and run time of jobs 100% longer.
>> This was on a vm with 72 cpus
>>
Just to give this story some kind of closure: we got a test kernel from
$SUPPORT fixing a specifig bugzilla (which seems to be private) and %cpu
system is in normal (low) ranges again.
So thanks for your advices, they are still heeded!
For the record the core issue was fixed in f56298835036 ("audit:
acquire creds selectively to reduce atomic op overhead").
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paul moore
www.paul-moore.com