Optimizing The Solus Linux Distribution For Performance
Warning: Includes flicking off some Kernel safety switches 😱
Note (June 24th, 2019): Ubuntu developers declared war on 32bit systems and applications and is going to deprecate them in the near future. Solus will not abandon their users depending on multilib support: “[…] I’d like to remind people that #Solus is happy to provide multilib libs for Steam, WINE, and specific binary compatibility […]”
As I mentioned in my (totally subjective) Solus article, this marvelous operating system is very fast. But there is always room for improvement, especially now that the revelation of a couple of theoretical attack vectors potentially compromising computers on the CPU level has disrupted even the mainstream media channels.
Theoretically, Spectre and Meltdown are really bad news, but in reality the threat seems to be exaggerated. Don’t take my word for it, though. Plenty of experts think that we’re sitting on ticking timebombs…
The mitigations and added security improvements pulled in by recent Kernel upgrades have a devastating effect on the overall performance of countless machines around the globe. (Ranging from ~18% to ~40% according to tests done by Michael Larabel from phoronix.com)
