Dan, Thanks for your response. Why would semanage perform a recompile of the policies. Is it possible to enforce semanage not to recompile the policies in order to prevent the spike. Thanks, Anamitra On 11/21/12 2:13 AM, "Daniel J Walsh" <dwalsh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >On 11/20/2012 06:02 PM, Anamitra Dutta Majumdar (anmajumd) wrote: >> >> We are in the process of upgrading our product to RHEL6 os. And during >> setting of SELinux contexts using semanage commands we see 100 % CPU >>usage >> as below >> >> top - 19:22:33 up 1:00, 1 user, load average: 1.25, 1.15, 1.58 Tasks: >> 171 total, 2 running, 169 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): >> 24.7%us, 0.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 75.2%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st >>Mem: >> 6113004k total, 5841096k used, 271908k free, 22600k buffers Swap: >> 2047992k total, 0k used, 2047992k free, 5078044k cached >> >> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND >> >> >> 4189 root 20 0 575m 410m 3296 R 100.0 6.9 0:08.17 semanage >> >> >> 21 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 0:00.48 events/2 >> >> >> 60 root 39 19 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 0:00.41 khugepaged >> >> >> 3337 root 20 0 15088 1396 1020 R 0.3 0.0 0:01.29 top >> >> >> 11471 root 39 19 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 0:14.53 kipmi0 >> >> >> 1 root 20 0 19396 1532 1208 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.10 init.real >> >> >> 2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd >> >> >> 3 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.03 migration/0 >> >> >> 4 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0 >> >> >> 5 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0 >> >> >> 6 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0 >> >> >> 7 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.09 migration/1 >> >> >> 8 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/1 >> >> >> 9 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.04 ksoftirqd/1 >> >> >> 10 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/1 >> >> >> 11 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.04 migration/2 >> >> >> 12 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/2 >> >> >> 13 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/2 >> >> >> 14 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/2 >> >> >> 15 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.05 migration/3 >> >> >> 16 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/3 >> >> >> 17 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/3 >> >> >> 18 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/3 >> >> >> 19 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 events/0 >> >> >> 20 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.03 events/1 >> >> >> 22 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.89 events/3 >> >> >> 23 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 cpuset >> >> >> 24 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper >> >> >> 25 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 netns >> >> >> 26 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 async/mgr >> >> >> 27 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pm >> >> >> 28 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 sync_supers >> >> >> 29 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 bdi-default >> >> >> 30 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kintegrityd/0 >> >> >> 31 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kintegrityd/1 >> >> >> 32 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kintegrityd/2 >> >> >> 33 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kintegrityd/3 >> >> >> You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root [root@vos-cm144 ~]# ps -efZ | >> grep semanage system_u:system_r:initrc_t:s0 root 4189 4188 96 >>19:22 >> ? 00:00:12 /usr/bin/python -Es /usr/sbin/semanage user -a -P user -R >> sysadm_r system_r specialuser_u >> >> Is this an expected behavior . >> >> Thanks, Anamitra >> >> >> >> -- selinux mailing list selinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/selinux >> >semanage is performing a recompile of policy which is causing the spike. >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) >Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ > >iEYEARECAAYFAlCsqUcACgkQrlYvE4MpobN6hQCgmMOIX7t4oLddImoUwhnByIWm >SVUAn24d4y61FnMD++L9DGnHUy0cG6pl >=FWuT >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- selinux mailing list selinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/selinux