Re: Brand new server - bad adventures

2020-01-24 Thread Tom Smyth
Ozgur, AFAIK with hyperthreading on side channel attacks and other CPU vulnerabilities are much easier to achieve. also under certain workloads Hyperthreading actually reduces performance, (where you have High packet rate Network I/O for instance) if you are using OpenBSD Current or Stable smt i

Re: Brand new server - bad adventures

2020-01-23 Thread Özgür Kazancci
Hi Aaron, Considering heavy traffic load&requests through web/sql server on the system, wouldn't that decrease performance? HT might not be too safe - OpenBSD is. :) I do know and am aware of that OpenBSD team suggest turning it of, but.. Other than that, have you read anything else *specifica

Re: Brand new server - bad adventures

2020-01-23 Thread Aaron Mason
After reviewing your dmesg and googling the model of your CPU, might I suggest/recommend turning off hyperthreading if you can. Bad security juju. On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 6:29 PM Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 11:30:51PM +0300, Özgür Kazancci wrote: > > Hello every

Re: Brand new server - bad adventures -Update: note-

2020-01-23 Thread Özgür Kazancci
A note: "kbc: cmd word write error" still there, though. and booting into config, (boot -c) still hangs: https://ibb.co/z6V6585 On 23/01/2020 11:18, Özgür Kazancci wrote: Hej Andreas and all, I haven't tried that but I tried sysupgrade -s to upgrade to the latest snapshot today (as requested

Re: Brand new server - bad adventures -Update: fixed by the latest snapshot-

2020-01-23 Thread Özgür Kazancci
Hej Andreas and all, I haven't tried that but I tried sysupgrade -s to upgrade to the latest snapshot today (as requested by Mark) the inteldrm issue seems fixed. I'll have to wait till the next release - it seems. Here's the dmesg output of the snapshot from today: OpenBSD 6.6-current (GENE

Re: Brand new server - bad adventures

2020-01-22 Thread Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri
On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 11:30:51PM +0300, Özgür Kazancci wrote: > Hello everyone! Greetings to misc people! > > Got a brand new dedicated server with a hardware: Intel Xeon-E 2274G - 64GB > DDR4 ECC 2666MHz - 2x SSD NVMe 960GB > and installed "brand new" OpenBSD 6.6 on it. (I'm managing it remotel

Re: Brand new server - bad adventures

2020-01-22 Thread Özgür Kazancci
Hi Hrvoje, I've just sent the sendbug -P output on the system, with needed information filled, to bugs@openbsd. Regards. On 23/01/2020 01:26, Hrvoje Popovski wrote: On 22.1.2020. 21:30, Özgür Kazancci wrote: Hello everyone! Greetings to misc people! Got a brand new dedicated server with

Re: Brand new server - bad adventures

2020-01-22 Thread Özgür Kazancci
Hello Tom&everyone, and many thanks for all your prompt replies. I've posted dmesg to bugs and dmesg, with further details there. I'm going to post here the dmesg output, obviously, I cannot reach the dmesg when it hangs/fails to boot (when inteldrm is enabled, the boot-up hangs with filling "

Re: Brand new server - bad adventures

2020-01-22 Thread Tom Smyth
Hello Ozgur, if you are very stuck and you want to get you could set the console to com0 on the openbsd boot screen and manage it via serial (to get around the drm issue for now ) just make sure the bios screen you turn off logos (text boot up) and set the openbsd console settings to the same spe

Re: Brand new server - bad adventures

2020-01-22 Thread Jonathan Gray
On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 11:30:51PM +0300, Özgür Kazancci wrote: > Hello everyone! Greetings to misc people! > > Got a brand new dedicated server with a hardware: Intel Xeon-E 2274G - 64GB > DDR4 ECC 2666MHz - 2x SSD NVMe 960GB > and installed "brand new" OpenBSD 6.6 on it. (I'm managing it remotel

Re: Brand new server - bad adventures

2020-01-22 Thread Hrvoje Popovski
On 22.1.2020. 21:30, Özgür Kazancci wrote: > Hello everyone! Greetings to misc people! > > Got a brand new dedicated server with a hardware: Intel Xeon-E 2274G - > 64GB DDR4 ECC 2666MHz - 2x SSD NVMe 960GB > and installed "brand new" OpenBSD 6.6 on it. (I'm managing it remotely > via KVM/IPMI) H

Brand new server - bad adventures

2020-01-22 Thread Özgür Kazancci
Hello everyone! Greetings to misc people! Got a brand new dedicated server with a hardware: Intel Xeon-E 2274G - 64GB DDR4 ECC 2666MHz - 2x SSD NVMe 960GB and installed "brand new" OpenBSD 6.6 on it. (I'm managing it remotely via KVM/IPMI) After the first boot, dmesg is outputting sequentally