Since my hosting provider https://www.bytemark.co.uk/cloud-hosting/ patched for Meltdown last weekend I'm seeing significant performance issues with an OpenBSD virtual instance there. It seems okay after a fresh reboot but then progressively returns to being very slow: for example "sleep 1" may take four seconds, then five, six, seven, then rather more. Curiously it does tend to be an integral multiplier.
I wondered, is anybody else seeing significant performance problems with OpenBSD (or other BSDs) virtual instances since Meltdown patching? Is there anything to tweak at my end or am I reliant on the provider? -- Mark OpenBSD 6.1 (GENERIC) #26: Wed Oct 4 18:41:35 CEST 2017 rob...@syspatch-61-amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC real mem = 1055870976 (1006MB) avail mem = 1019322368 (972MB) mpath0 at root scsibus0 at mpath0: 256 targets mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: SMBIOS rev. 2.4 @ 0xf1c10 (10 entries) bios0: vendor Bochs version "Bochs" date 01/01/2011 bios0: Bochs Bochs acpi0 at bios0: rev 0 acpi0: sleep states S3 S4 S5 acpi0: tables DSDT FACP SSDT APIC HPET acpi0: wakeup devices acpitimer0 at acpi0: 3579545 Hz, 24 bits acpimadt0 at acpi0 addr 0xfee00000: PC-AT compat cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor) cpu0: QEMU Virtual CPU version 2.1.3, 2200.42 MHz cpu0: FPU,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SSE3,CX16,POPCNT,HV,NXE,LONG,LAHF cpu0: 64KB 64b/line 2-way I-cache, 64KB 64b/line 2-way D-cache, 512KB 64b/line 16-way L2 cache cpu0: ITLB 255 4KB entries direct-mapped, 255 4MB entries direct-mapped cpu0: DTLB 255 4KB entries direct-mapped, 255 4MB entries direct-mapped cpu0: smt 0, core 0, package 0 mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support, 8 var ranges, 88 fixed ranges cpu0: apic clock running at 1000MHz ioapic0 at mainbus0: apid 0 pa 0xfec00000, version 11, 24 pins acpihpet0 at acpi0: 100000000 Hz acpiprt0 at acpi0: bus 0 (PCI0) acpicpu0 at acpi0: C1(@1 halt!) "ACPI0006" at acpi0 not configured "PNP0303" at acpi0 not configured "PNP0F13" at acpi0 not configured "PNP0700" at acpi0 not configured "PNP0400" at acpi0 not configured "PNP0501" at acpi0 not configured "ACPI0007" at acpi0 not configured pvbus0 at mainbus0: KVM pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0 pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82441FX" rev 0x02 pcib0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "Intel 82371SB ISA" rev 0x00 pciide0 at pci0 dev 1 function 1 "Intel 82371SB IDE" rev 0x00: DMA, channel 0 wired to compatibility, channel 1 wired to compatibility pciide0: channel 0 disabled (no drives) atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0 scsibus1 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets cd0 at scsibus1 targ 0 lun 0: <QEMU, QEMU DVD-ROM, 2.1.> ATAPI 5/cdrom removable cd0(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2 uhci0 at pci0 dev 1 function 2 "Intel 82371SB USB" rev 0x01: apic 0 int 11 piixpm0 at pci0 dev 1 function 3 "Intel 82371AB Power" rev 0x03: apic 0 int 9 iic0 at piixpm0 vga1 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "Cirrus Logic CL-GD5446" rev 0x00 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) virtio0 at pci0 dev 3 function 0 "Qumranet Virtio Network" rev 0x00 vio0 at virtio0: address fe:ff:00:00:4f:1a virtio0: msix shared virtio1 at pci0 dev 4 function 0 "Qumranet Virtio Memory" rev 0x00 viomb0 at virtio1 virtio1: apic 0 int 11 virtio2 at pci0 dev 5 function 0 "Qumranet Virtio Storage" rev 0x00 vioblk0 at virtio2 scsibus2 at vioblk0: 2 targets sd0 at scsibus2 targ 0 lun 0: <VirtIO, Block Device, > SCSI3 0/direct fixed sd0: 25600MB, 512 bytes/sector, 52428800 sectors virtio2: msix shared "Intel 6300ESB WDT" rev 0x00 at pci0 dev 6 function 0 not configured isa0 at pcib0 isadma0 at isa0 fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2 fd0 at fdc0 drive 1: density unknown com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo com0: console pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 irq 1 irq 12 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot) wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 spkr0 at pcppi0 lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq 7 usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0 at usb0 configuration 1 interface 0 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 uhidev0 at uhub0 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0 "QEMU QEMU USB Tablet" rev 1.00/0.00 addr 2 uhidev0: iclass 3/0 ums0 at uhidev0: 3 buttons, Z dir wsmouse1 at ums0 mux 0 vscsi0 at root scsibus3 at vscsi0: 256 targets softraid0 at root scsibus4 at softraid0: 256 targets root on sd0a (312946608d4051a2.a) swap on sd0b dump on sd0b