Nathan, On Sep 21, 2007, at 13:40 , Nathan Dietsch wrote:
> Is there any data within Sun as to how expensive auditing is? > Obviously > any measurement would be workload-specific, but removing the IO > component of logging, is there a finger-in-the-air figure of what sort > of overhead auditing generates per audit event? Is there roughly a > common set of operations performed for each audit event? > I'm working on that, but I haven't had time to finish it. You can read about my initial findings here: <http://blogs.sun.com/martin/entry/measuring_the_impact_of_auditing> cheers, /Martin -- Martin Englund, Security Engineer, .Sun Engineering, Sun Microsystems Inc. Email: martin.englund at sun.com Time Zone: GMT-3 PGP: 1024D/AA514677 "The question is not if you are paranoid, it is if you are paranoid enough."