Hi all, I'm reading the bug news in
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=333739.
Maybe I'm being too much newbie, I cannot understand why the audit is
enabled by default, and what "CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL" option means. Any
hint?

Rob

On 10/19/07, Ben Kevan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thursday 18 October 2007 02:25:04 pm nordi wrote:
> > I built myself a new kernel and surprise: I got A LOT faster!
> >
> >                   Posix 10.0   UTF8 10.3   10.3 (new kernel)
> >                   ==========   ========    ==========
> > Dhrystone        336          339         338
> > Whetstone        198          204         206
> > Execl            658          576         632
> > File Copy 1024   535          481         595
> > File Copy 256    455          355         458
> > File Copy 4096   588          717         827
> > Pipe Throughput  468          278         408
> > Context Switch   554          384         567
> > Process Creat   1000          783         921
> > Shell Scripts1   873          344         362
> > Shell Scripts8   894          332         349
> > System Call      904          334         819
> >                  ------       ------      ------
> > Index Score:     569          397         496
> >
> > I have appended my kernel config. It is the standard config minus
> > everything that I thought could potentially hurt syscall performance (8
> > changes all together). Since building a kernel takes quite some time on
> > my machine I haven't checked exactly which change it was.
> >
> > Note that I used UTF-8 again, but Shell Script performance still went up
> >   by 17-18 points. That is a 5% speed increase for a shell script,
> > simply because of the new kernel! Quite likely other applications will
> > benefit as well.
> >
> > I think Suse should really look into this issue, getting 5% more
> > performance in your applications is something that everyone would like
> > to have. But so far, I have gotten no replies to my bug report [1]. Btw,
> > if you have a Bugzilla account you can add yourself to the CC: list and
> > get informed about all changes to this bug.
> >
> > Regards
> > nordi
> >
> > [1] https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=333739
>
> I did similar here.. I actually installed a vanilla 2.6.23.. and boy.. the
> shit screamed like a little kiddie in a haunted house on halloween.. I love
> it..
>
> Ben
>
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