Re: CPU platform

2019-02-10 Thread Patrick Dohman
> On Feb 10, 2019, at 12:13 PM, Nick Holland > wrote: > > Most likely, you are going to start by panicking about Meltdown and > Spectre. Then you are going to go load up your system with poorly > written software which is far more likely to be the REAL cause of a breach. > > OpenBSD Develope

Re: CPU platform

2019-02-10 Thread Nick Holland
On 2/10/19 8:41 AM, Mihai Popescu wrote: > Hello all, > > I usually take my computers for OpenBSD from used/refurbished market > since they are much cheaper and I don't need edge hardware. Lately, > AMD processors platforms are not so easy to find ( I prefer a > combination of cpu + video + brand

Re: CPU platform

2019-02-10 Thread Patrick Dohman
> On Feb 10, 2019, at 7:41 AM, Mihai Popescu wrote: > > How did you folks with Intel based production systems mitigated this? > > Thank you. At this point hyper threading is no-op on my Dell system. Hoping to clarify if meltdown effects Bigtable? Also what is the status of "no root unix”. Th

Re: CPU platform

2019-02-10 Thread
>Hello all, > >I usually take my computers for OpenBSD from used/refurbished market >since they are much cheaper and I don't need edge hardware. Lately, >AMD processors platforms are not so easy to find ( I prefer a >combination of cpu + video + brand name). >I have a much bigger offer from Intel s