All Intel CPUs Affected by Hardware Vulnerability causing 5-30% Performance Slowdown

[photon]

Maybe, not as fun as rowhammer though.

[FlameOn]

Bunch of our AWS VMs are all running at 100% utilization post patch when we do DB backups at night... We used to peak out at 75%. Guess we are paying for upgrades.

[Fuzz]

Ya, it's funny(depressing) that the end result of their screw ups will be more CPU sales to make up for the lost performance.

[calumniate]

Guess it's back to playing Baldur's Gate for me

[zamler]

Originally Posted by Resurrection

wow this is... this is bad. is this the worst big in the history of computing?

You of course mean bug, which is somewhat apropos here. To the question, I'd say yes this is the biggest bug/flaw in hardware history.

[White Out 403]

hahah yes i meant bug. i think i was up in middle of the night sleepless again

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Originally Posted by Fuzz

Ya, it's funny(depressing) that the end result of their screw ups will be more CPU sales to make up for the lost performance.

Yep and we are going to be actively looking at the AMD EPYC line for our next set of bare metal upgrades.