On 07/20/2018 04:21 AM, Chris Caudle wrote:
> On Fri, July 20, 2018 3:52 am, david wrote:
>> And I figured out where to put pti=off on my various GRUB lines, so now
>> it boots with it off. And my desktop latency is back to 10msecs. :)
>
> That is good to know. And depressing, one more thing to add to the latency
> performance checklist. Set RT permissions, add user to audio group, etc.
> ...oh, and one last thing, you need to decide whether you want better
> performance or want to protect against malicious software reading you
> kernel memory. You do have separate dedicated computers for audio and
> banking, right? And a third for general web use? Just make sure you
> banking and web browsing computers leave PTI enabled, it's probably OK to
> disable it on your dedicated audio computer since you don't connect it to
> the Internet.
Mozilla implemented Meltdown/Spectre patches beginning in v57.0.4:
And I always run with Javascript disabled plus adblocking to keep out
unwanted intrusions on my browsing experience. ;)
-- David W. Jones gnome@hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community http://dancingtreefrog.com _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-userReceived on Sat Jul 21 12:15:03 2018
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