Ask HN: Low-Security/High-Performance OS

1 points by AdamN ↗ HN
Is there a low-security, high-performance Linux flavor that turns off most internal security controls in favor of performance? This would disable pre-fetch attack mitigations, etc... so it would not be suitable for multi-tenant usage but would be useful for fleets of machines doing single-tenant jobs where a couple percent performance improvement could save alot of money or reduce total time.

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Any of them can be transformed into one:

    /etc/default/grub

    GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="mitigations=off"

    update-grub

    reboot