Re: [AusNOG] [AUSNOG] MS patches Intel memory management

2018-01-03 Thread Burt Mascareigne
So, with this performance hit, does that mean we have to buy more Intel Servers to cope O_o Regards, Burt Mascareigne Mobile 0414 450 962 Office (02) 9965 5422 Address Level 19, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney NSW 2000 Web http://www.stormnetwork.com.au [01-300x70

Re: [AusNOG] [AUSNOG] MS patches Intel memory management

2018-01-03 Thread Sam McLeod
s/solution/mitigation -- Sam McLeod https://smcleod.net https://twitter.com/s_mcleod > On 4 Jan 2018, at 4:03 pm, Scott Howard wrote: > > The patches (which exist or will soon exist for all OSes) are only part of > the solution. > > You also need to be looking for BIOS updates from your serve

Re: [AusNOG] [AUSNOG] MS patches Intel memory management

2018-01-03 Thread James Hodgkinson
Not to mention hardware fixes on-die :) On Thu, 4 Jan 2018, at 15:03, Scott Howard wrote: > The patches (which exist or will soon exist for all OSes) are only > part of the solution.> > You also need to be looking for BIOS updates from your server/PC > vendors to get the full fixes. Some of the

Re: [AusNOG] [AUSNOG] MS patches Intel memory management

2018-01-03 Thread Scott Howard
The patches (which exist or will soon exist for all OSes) are only part of the solution. You also need to be looking for BIOS updates from your server/PC vendors to get the full fixes. Some of these have already been released, others are on the way. Scott On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 8:52 PM, Pau

[AusNOG] [AUSNOG] MS patches Intel memory management

2018-01-03 Thread Paul Wilkins
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 ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lis