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Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Grsecurity slows down a web server?
From: Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>
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>> Very close.  PAGEEXEC is enabled, but so is SEGMEXEC.  My CPU is a
>> P4-2.8, and I'm not sure about NX support but these are the flags:
>>
>> fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36
>> clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe constant_tsc pebs bts
>> pni monitor ds_cpl cid xtpr
>
> There is no "nx" in your cpuinfo flags. Therefore, your P4 does not
> have the hardware NX bit (or XD bit in Intel wording)

I do have SEGMEXEC enabled though.  Should it still be noticeably (but
slightly) slower?  If so, I suppose the best thing to do would be to
upgrade the CPU?

- Grant