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Hi all! I'm running an up-to-date Centos-7 on an AMD Vishera 6300, 6 core CPU. I note that when I run the redhat script to test for spectre & meltdown I get this result for variant 2: Variant #2 (Spectre): Vulnerable CVE-2017-5715 - speculative execution branch target injection - Kernel with mitigation patches: OK - HW support / updated microcode...

Hi all! Running Centos-6.latest on an AMD six-core Vishera processor. It's been running for a year on that hardware. today I swapped out the video card (from Nvidia 9800GT to Nvidia 460 GTX) hoping to get a little more horsepower, and the ability to run the Folding At Home GPUclient. I know that's an old card, it's a hand-me-down from my son...

Last week we noticed that the default scheduler isn't being set properly in CentOS 7. I haven't checked this for CentOS 6, but it might be worth exploring. The TL;DR is unless you're running CentOS 7 on a laptop or as a virtual guest, you should probably run 'tuned-adm profile throughput-performance' I wrote up the full details here ->

...d probably run 'tuned-adm profile throughput-performance' > > I wrote up the full details here -> > http://jperrin.org/centos/boosting-centos-server-performance/ Cool. thanks! I have noticed (without being quite sure what to do about it) that my Centos 7 desktop (six core AMD Vishera) seems sluggish at times, when there doesn't seem to be much running that should be a system hog. I'll see if this change helps resolve that. Does running the command shown there make a permanent change, i.e., one that survives reboot? -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.m...

...e throughput-performance' >> >> I wrote up the full details here -> >> http://jperrin.org/centos/boosting-centos-server-performance/ > > Cool. thanks! > > I have noticed (without being quite sure what to do about it) that > my Centos 7 desktop (six core AMD Vishera) seems sluggish at times, > when there doesn't seem to be much running that should be a system > hog. I'll see if this change helps resolve that. > > Does running the command shown there make a permanent change, i.e., > one that survives reboot? > > Yes. This comma...

On 16/03/18 18:24, Fred Smith wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm running an up-to-date Centos-7 on an AMD Vishera 6300, 6 core CPU. > What kernel are you running (uname -r)? > I note that when I run the redhat script to test for spectre & meltdown > I get this result for variant 2: > > Variant #2 (Spectre): Vulnerable > CVE-2017-5715 - speculative execution branch target injection &gt...