Improve Linux performance with this one weird trick

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jul 20, 2022 5:14 PM EDT
The Register; By Liam Proven
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A cryptic website with a single line of text promises to make your Linux box more responsive – if you are willing to accept some risk. Another day, another bleed-ing vulnerability. New speculative-execution attacks keep being discovered, and OS kernel developers keep finding ways to block them – at the cost of some CPU performance for each mitigation. But what if you run an isolated, standalone box? What if you just … turned off all the mitigations?

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