>>> I recently moved my server from: >>> >>> 3.2.11-hardened Security Level (Hardened Gentoo [server]) >>> >>> to: >>> >>> 3.4.5-hardened Configuration Method (Automatic) Usage Type >>> (Server) Virtualization Type (None) Required Priorities >>> (Security) >>> >>> and http became extremely slow. Some pages that would normally >>> execute in 1 second would take 10 seconds or more. There is a >>> lot of php and perl server-side stuff so the slowdown may have >>> been rooted in that. I changed to Required Priorities >>> (Performance) and everything sped back up to normal. My laptop >>> was moved to the following at the same time and I didn't notice >>> any performance change: >>> >>> 3.4.5-hardened Configuration Method (Automatic) Usage Type >>> (Desktop) Virtualization Type (None) Required Priorities >>> (Security) >>> >>> Is this sort of behavior expected from a server? >>> >>> - Grant >> >> This may have been a false alarm. I think I've been having >> intermittent network problems to part of the internet. Can anyone >> confirm that the above config shouldn't slow down an http server? >> >> - Grant >> > > It's hard to make any generalisations but I have some servers with > similar grsec-autoconfig (server instead of desktop) and no noticable > slowdown (I'd say nothing more that 10%). > I'd recommend to use 3.5.1-r2 (testing) or 3.2.27 (stable), though. > > WKR > Hinnerk
3.4.5 is the latest stable, right? http://packages.gentoo.org/package/sys-kernel/hardened-sources I'm using Server too. I'm using Desktop on my laptop. - Grant
