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[Discuss] apache problem



On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 04:43:04PM -0500, Rich Pieri wrote:
> It makes no sense to have SELinux running on my web server machine. It
> accomplishes nothing not already accomplished innately by the
> infrastructure. It increases complexity which means more opportunity
> for mistakes or bugs to cause other problems.

It also consumes more CPU and I assume a bit of memory.  The overhead
is probably quite small, but on a busy web server it matters.

[In a somewhat historically uncommon occurrence, Rich and I are on the
same page, and from here I'll assume he got this. =8^) ]

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