Benchmarking The Performance Overhead To Linux's Proposed FGKASLR Security Feature

Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 30 June 2020 at 10:40 AM EDT. Page 3 of 4. 14 Comments.

FGKASLR did provide some small performance hits to the LevelDB database performance for this open-source Google-developed key-value store used by the likes of Chrome.

For traditional databases like PostgreSQL there was also a slight hit even for read-only workloads.

RocksDB was also impacted by a small amount from the FGKASLR protection.


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