Xaprb

I’ve been working with a client recently who has SELinux on his servers.  It has been quite a struggle sometimes.

My colleages tell me that SELinux has a pretty noticeable performance impact.  I am not sure if we have benchmarks to support this; at any rate, the client said it’s OK, we’ll take the performance hit.

There have been a few problems (Nagios can’t run because it can’t write to its own pid file, etc etc).  Last night there was something new: “too many connections” when trying to connect to MySQL.  As a result the site was down, and it wasn’t possible to log in to MySQL and see why. But the oddest thing happened: mysqld would not shut down.  It was sitting basically idle, doing absolutely nothing, and wouldn’t stop. There was nothing in any log files to show what might be going on.