Extensive ptrace usage can cause poor performance

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Issue

Extensive User-mode Linux (UML) (UML uses ptrace(2) syscall for internal management) usage can degrade performance.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • kernel-2.6.32-358.23.2.el6

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