On 2019-09-07, James Huddle <james.r.hud...@gmail.com> wrote: > I recently purchased a Dell T-330 server that I had intended to > install OpenBSD on and use as a serious web server. My goal was to > have more control than would be (naturally) given with, say an AWS VM. > And by control, I mean what is *not* running on the box - security-wise. > > Apparently, Dell ships these with an abundance of "security features" > already on the box. And not a lot of obvious opt-outs. And a proclivity > not not understand that "no means no" in regard to turning off these > features. > One of which used 60% of (one of 8) processors, all the time. Constantly > running > one of my processors at 60% - as long as it was powered up.
I don't think that is from some hidden "security feature". Where is the CPU use showing up? Can you send output from "top -Sn", "vmstat -i" and a complete dmesg?
