CPU/Memory

[Daniel J Walsh]

I would bet you have a mislabeled machine that is generating hundreds of
AVC's.

ausearch -m avc -ts today

If the system is mislabeled, the easiest thing to do would be

touch /.autorelabel; reboot

On 07/22/2014 07:02 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On 07/22/2014 01:23 PM, Patrick Dupre issued this missive:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have 2 machines running fedora 20, one from 2007 with a dual processor
>> and 3 Go, and a recent one (2013) with a quad processor an 8 Go.
>> But it is a lot more convenient to use the old machine!!!
>> The recent one is always busy, 4 processors running
>> 53.1 55.9 /usr/bin/python -Es /usr/sbin/setroublesootd -f
>>   and the memory becomes full quickly requiring swapping!!
>> 8 Go for the OS and firefox! Something is wrong.
>>
>> Should I kill setroublesootd?
>
> The first thing is to see why you're getting AVC denials from SELinux
> in the first place. setroubleshootd should only fire if it's getting
> denials. Try running "sealert -b" and see if you're getting denials and
> what you can do about them.
>
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