up_the_irons : Happy Invoice Day! up_the_irons: thanks. I'm re-reading the "introducing..." article. It sounds as though each of the bare metal resources is dedicated for the "thunder" vps running on top of it. Is this a matter of just saying how many each is allowed to use, or do you use techniques like process sets, or cpu affinity, etc to keep it to the same cores? I'm thinking through things like having cache lines blown out if which physical cores are ha ndling execution can change mhoran: we'll be migrating VMs off kvr02 actually, soon... I'll finally get virtio! :D virtio doesn't help openbsd that much Good thing I'm running freebsd! I thought it'd help some io latency I was seeing a while back but I don't remember if it helped ah cool yeah virtio helps more with freebsd it mostly helps with writes on freebsd iirc and mostly helps with reads on openbsd how is spectre/meltdown handled?