Gentoo Archives: gentoo-hardened

From: Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Grsecurity slows down a web server?
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:48:10
Message-Id: 49bf44f10901241048r193503caj29e285e3576e5867@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Grsecurity slows down a web server? by pageexec@freemail.hu
1 >> Nope, you guys are absolutely right. It falls back to peMRS whether
2 >> or not I enable PAGEEXEC since I don't have the nx flag.
3 >
4 > ok, so coming back to your original problem, are you saying that you
5 > had an observable slowdown due to SEGMEXEC? if so, i'd like to see some
6 > numbers and think about it, if you have some time.
7
8 I thought there was a slowdown going from no grsecurity to grsecurity
9 "Gentoo (server)", but now I'm not so sure. I'll keep an eye on it
10 for sure. Would you consider an external http monitor's response
11 times over 24 hours a good indicator of whether or not I should
12 investigate further and do real benchmarking?
13
14 - Grant

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