Re: NetBSD on Linode kvm problems

[atomicules <base%atomicules.co.uk@localhost>]

Just to follow-up here, because it's now been almost two weeks that 
everything has been running fine again (woohoo!).

I wasn't interested in performing a scientific experiment to figure 
out what went wrong or what exactly fixed it, in the end I did:

- Switched timecounter to ACPI-Safe. This was the last one I had to 
 try. However, I didn't leave it long enough to know if that fixed it 
 because...
- I started re-building my NetBSD install. Previously I'd used one 
 20GB raw disk image on Linode split in half between /home and 
 everything else. /home was encrypted. I swapped from encrypted and 
 added a new 10GB disk image and moved /home there
- Pretty sure that made no difference, but I didn't want a 20GB disk 
 image with 10GB of nothingness so I spent had some downtime whilst I 
 dumped my root filesystem out to another new diskimage
- Created yet another 10GB disk and did a fresh install of NetBSD 
 7.1.1 to it from a USB image (I think so anyway, of course I didn't 
 keep notes and memory is hazy already, but I _think_ I did that to 
 setup the disk properly - i.e. swap - as opposed to just using 
 fdisk/disklabel, etc).
- newfs'd that root to wipe it out so I could restore my dump onto it
- Finally (I think) re-installed 7.1.1 on top of the new disk to make 
 sure it was all ok.

So I don't really get what changed with the Meltdown patching, but I 
am glad I was able to get things working again.