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LSM network performance clarification

LSM network performance clarification

Posted Jun 26, 2002 11:30 UTC (Wed) by jamesm (guest, #2273)
Parent article: The Ottawa Kernel Summit, Day Two

The 20% figure mentioned in the story refers to testing that was done with
SELinux loaded on top of LSM . The overhead for LSM itself is in the
5-7% range. Note that this is for gigabit ethernet; there is no noticable
performance hit with 100Mbps networking.


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