Audit rules on a lot of directories slows down the system running under RHEL6

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Issue

When running a RHEL6 with audit rules on a bunch of directories, the system slows down significantly.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8
  • audit package version 2.4.5-3.el6.x86_64
  • System with >64 CPUs (+ >100 GB of RAM)

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