Hello, On Friday, October 5, 2018 9:11:28 AM EDT Osama Elnaggar wrote: > I'm currently working on a Python audisp plugin. My main routine looks > like this: > > if __name__ == '__main__': > > try: > ... > > aup = auparse.AuParser(auparse.AUSOURCE_FEED) > aup.add_callback(process_event, None) > > while True: > for _ in fileinput.input(): > aup.feed(_) > except: > ... > > While profiling my plugin, I noticed that 95% + of the CPU time used by my > plugin is used in fileinput.input(), waiting/reading from input > > Is there any way to lower this or preferred way to poll/read?
I don't do much if any python programming. But in C, all examples include a select in the event processing loop. Python has a select module. There are examples on the internet about how to use it. One is here: https://www.programcreek.com/python/example/258/select.select There are other examples. -Steve -- Linux-audit mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-audit
