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DateTue, 14 Jun 2005 08:55:24 +0200
FromBernardo Innocenti <>
SubjectAudit / Netlink slowness
Hello,

on a server running kernel 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4, both ssh
and su where taking a longish amount of time (over >1.5 sec.)

Running "strace -r 2>strace.out su", I discovered that
netlink communication is the major cause of slowdown.

"su" connects to a NETLINK_AUDIT socket 3 or 4 times.
Each time it does 2 sendto() + recvfrom() operations,
with a latency of ~200ms.  This adds up to 800ms wasted
time.

Disabling CONFIG_AUDIT in the kernel makes su and ssh
very fast again.

Is this behavior to be expected?  CONFIG_AUDIT is enabled
by default in FC4, so many people are going to be hit by
this problem.

Please Cc me in replies as I'm not subrscribed to the lkml.

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  // Bernardo Innocenti - Develer S.r.l., R&D dept.
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