[Phoronix] Ubuntu 9.04 vs. Fedora 11 Performance

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 06/12/2009 09:14 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 19:01 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> On 06/12/2009 06:42 PM, Kyle McMartin wrote:
>>
>>> It's almost certainly attributable to the default install using audit.
>>> Roland and various others have done a lot of work improving things, but
>>> there is always going to be a per-syscall overhead to this kind of
>>> thing. A few extra usec a syscall adds up after a few hundred thousand
>>> calls...
>>
>> Is there a benefit to running audit by default? Is it worth the cost?
> 
> ...and how does one disable it, so the people doing the benchmarks can
> confirm that's the cause?

service auditd stop and chkconfig auditd off if you want that to be
permanent.

Rahul