[AusNOG] [AUSNOG] MS patches Intel memory management

[Damien Gardner Jnr]

If the hardware is under warranty, I'd be expecting the vendor to replace
the CPU's with updated ones which are not affected?  (oh man that's going
to hurt Intel?)

On 4 January 2018 at 16:31, Burt Mascareigne <Burt at stormnetwork.com.au>
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> So, with this performance hit, does that mean we have to buy more Intel
> Servers to cope O_o
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> *From:* AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] *On Behalf Of *Paul
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> Fix for security bug in Intel CPUs will be released patch Tuesday, and
> predictions are of a 5 - 30% performance hit.
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> This is a problem in cloud, but I'm sure it will all be good on the day :)
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