Warm Greetings To GTALUG, FYI. Below is a forward of an email from one of the developers of the DragonFlyBSD (dfly) operating system. The PDF at the link target gives a nice one-page graph showing the performance hits due to fixes for Meltdown and Spectre. Dfly is not LInux but a highly performant BSD flavour I have installed dfly for testing under a VPS. Thinking to use dfly, instead of Linux, for better HTTP server resource efficiency. But also always keeping the website operational under a debian Linux for development, reference, maintenance and emergency fallback. Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: Sepherosa Ziehau To: users@dragonflybsd.org Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2018 8:44 AM Subject: Meltdown and Spectre on HTTP workload Enjoy: https://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~sephe/melt_spectre.pdf Meltdown+spectre means that performance is dropped by 35%, and 99th percentile of latency is increased by 55%! Thanks, sephe -- Tomorrow Will Never Die