[AusNOG] [AUSNOG] MS patches Intel memory management

[Giles Pollock]

>From their warranty section:

WHAT THIS LIMITED WARRANTY DOES NOT COVER:
• design defects or errors in the Product (Errata). Contact Intel for
information on characterized errata.
• any costs associated with the repair or replacement of the Product,
including costs of removal or replacement of the Product;
• damage to the Product, or errors or malfunctions in the Product, due to
accident, abnormal electrical, mechanical or environmental conditions, use
contrary to product instructions, misuse, neglect, alteration, mishandling,
repair, improper installation or testing, combinations with incompatible
products or any third party virus, infection, worm or similar malicious
code;
• that the Product will protect against all possible security threats,
including intentional misconduct by third parties;
• any Product which has been modified or operated outside of Intel’s
publicly available specifications, including where clock frequencies or
voltages have been altered, or where the original identification markings
have been removed, altered or obliterated. Intel assumes no responsibility
that the Product, including if used with altered clock frequencies or
voltages, will be fit for any particular purpose and will not cause any
damage or injury.

Option 1 and 4 seems to have them covered :-(

On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 1:07 AM, James Hodgkinson <yaleman at ricetek.net>
wrote:

> Watch them pull out the “this warranty doesn’t actually cover anything,
> and we don’t say it’ll work in all conditions” card. It’ll be nice to get a
> free CPU if they do have to, however! :)
>
> On Thu, 4 Jan 2018, at 18:32, Damien Gardner Jnr wrote:
>
> 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>
> wrote:
>
> So, with this performance hit, does that mean we have to buy more Intel
> Servers to cope O_o
>
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> Regards,
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> *From:* AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] *On Behalf Of *Paul
> Wilkins
> *Sent:* Thursday, 4 January 2018 3:52 PM
> *To:* ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
> *Subject:* [AusNOG] [AUSNOG] MS patches Intel memory management
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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.
>
> This is a problem in cloud, but I'm sure it will all be good on the day :)
>
> Kind regards
>
> Paul Wilkins
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